American - Composer | November 7, 1949 - February 14, 2016
I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.
Steven Stucky
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On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.
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I do believe that the Chinese are becoming international leaders in showing the way forward for concert music.
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Pulitzers are journalist-oriented, so the publicity machine kicks in for about two days. Then, you go back to normal.
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If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start.
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My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.
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Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forward rather than a step back.
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Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
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