You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
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 Corigliano
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 Corigliano
If 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.… - John Corigliano
If 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.…
Jazz 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 Corigliano
Jazz 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.
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. - John Corigliano
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range… - John Corigliano
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range…
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. - John Corigliano
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
I'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 Corigliano
I'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.
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he'… - John Corigliano
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he'…
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