I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forward rather than a step back.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing. A change of fashion was needed.
