The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. - Harrison Birtwistle
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
- Harrison Birtwistle
You either are or you're not. - Harrison Birtwistle
You either are or you're not.
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. - Harrison Birtwistle
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes. - Harrison Birtwistle
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a colle… - Harrison Birtwistle
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a colle…
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. - Harrison Birtwistle
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
It's the irrational things that interest me. - Harrison Birtwistle
It's the irrational things that interest me.
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. - Harrison Birtwistle
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
In the end it doesn't matter what you do. - Harrison Birtwistle
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
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