But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. |
Composers are doers of deeds. |
For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other... it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come. |
I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. |
The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains. |
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level. |