It is easy to write unthinking music.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.