As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
Serious music usually doesn't pay.
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas.
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
