It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. - Gavin Bryars
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
- Gavin Bryars
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. - Gavin Bryars
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viol… - Gavin Bryars
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viol…
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. - Gavin Bryars
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. - Gavin Bryars
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an… - Gavin Bryars
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an…
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. … - Gavin Bryars
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. …
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught… - Gavin Bryars
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught…
What was once underground is now coming to the surface. - Gavin Bryars
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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