There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.
Tod MachoverI think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.
Tod MachoverI started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.
Tod MachoverThe English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
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