My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.
Michael HerschThe proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.
Michael HerschWhile I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.
Michael HerschAs a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.
Michael Hersch