“I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.” LittlesLanguageCenturyDisciplineAskingLovelyComposerPointingControversySpontaneitySurrealist Book:A Virgil Thomson reader Source: A Virgil Thomson reader
“Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.” WritingMatterSubjectsStyleSourceComposerSubject MatterLiving On Book:A Virgil Thomson reader Source: A Virgil Thomson reader
