“I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensStoriesWinningSidesHavensWestFantasticAwardsComposerBroadwayWest SideWest Side Story Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.” MenDoeHas BeensHeardMastersEqualMusicianExtraordinaryGreat MenComposerImpressedGreat MusicStatureConductorGreat MusicianCellists Author:Albert Schweitzer
“I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.” MenHas BeensWould BeFormYoungAdviceMastersAskingComplexesYoung ManComposerSymphony Author:Isaac Asimov
“The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.” IfsThinkingWantHas BeensMatterEarthTogetherSpeakWaterInspiredStuckStringsComposerCompositionParagraphFlourTchaikovsky Author:Leonard Bernstein