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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
