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I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it looks on the page that encourages it to be played in a certain fashion.
My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store home, and not make a decision about how things play out.
Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.
I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.
Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.
I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.
Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.
The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.
