If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I c… - Peter Maxwell Davies
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I c…
- Peter Maxwell Davies
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. - Peter Maxwell Davies
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which mi… - Peter Maxwell Davies
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which mi…
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these com… - Peter Maxwell Davies
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these com…
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. - Peter Maxwell Davies
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. - Peter Maxwell Davies
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going t… - Peter Maxwell Davies
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going t…
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. - Peter Maxwell Davies
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or… - Peter Maxwell Davies
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or…
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