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

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

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.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.