Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
Craft is part of the creative process.
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.