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I am optimistic about the future of music.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
