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“The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.”

Quote by George Crumb

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George Crumb, born on October 24, 1929, is a renowned composer from the United States. His musical works are known for their unique style and profound emotional expression, which have had a significant impact on modern music. more

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“One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.”

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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.”

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“Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.”

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“The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.”

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

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“Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”

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“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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“Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.”

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“Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.”

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“The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.”

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