“The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.” WritingWellsKindUseTogetherPlayerGroupsTalentIntuitionGreat ThingsStringsAssociationUnitsQuartetsLike FamilyString Quartets Author:Terry Riley
“Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.” WellsSimplePiecesBuiltStructurePatternsVillageOne PieceProminenceGlobal Village Author:Terry Riley
