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Suggest Revision: I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
 
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Suggest Revision: I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
 
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Suggest Revision: In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
 
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Suggest Revision: It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
 
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Suggest Revision: My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
 
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Suggest Revision: Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
 
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Suggest Revision: Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
 
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Suggest Revision: Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
 
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Suggest Revision: Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
 
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Suggest Revision: That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
 
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