The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. -George Crumb

 

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.


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This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

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My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of that - it's in the air in this house. -George Crumb
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In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.

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116

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.

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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. -George Crumb
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An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.

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