What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
John CoriglianoJazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
John CoriglianoI'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
John CoriglianoIf you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.
John Corigliano