John Zorn Quotes
I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'
Zorn, John. Interview by Tom Vitale. "At 60, John Zorn Finds 'Angels' Everywhere." NPR, 2 Sept. 2013.
Interestingly Western classical music had a philosophical and ideological place in Chinese Communist doctrine. Cho Enlai—the first Chinese Communist Prime Minister was a great philosophical, cultural, and political supporter of Li Delun’s program to spread Western classical music across China. His program and the rigorous training of Chinese musicians in Western classical music and instruments even survived the Cultural Revolution when everything else from the West was attacked. By the 21st century, the best classical musicians in Europe, Canada and the United States included Chinese musicians in almost every instrument and Western musical era.
John Zorn is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist. His music crosses genres that include jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. Zorn incorporates diverse styles and compositional methods in his works, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. In 2013, Down Beat described Zorn as "one of our most important composers".
