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John Corigliano
American Composer
Born: Feb 16, 1938
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Related authors: Eubie Blake George Crumb John Cage John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim Virgil Thomson
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make. John Corigliano
Style Think Thinking About Unconscious Over Make Gotten Years Really Choices
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. John Corigliano
Better Challenge Thinking Enormous Other Projects Range Unnecessary Would Composers Faced Structural Most Make Concert Concert Hall Hall Materials Than Same Them Pop Required Use Film Techniques
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. John Corigliano
Every Too Composer Glad Like Because Up Won Wanted Grew Award Pulitzer
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. John Corigliano
Great You Win Become Think Composer Meaningless Award Now Pulitzer
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. John Corigliano
Somewhere Beginning Percent Towards Pieces Eighty Thing Gravitate Tonal
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. John Corigliano
Good Respect Find Composer He Because Opposed American Automatically Really England Ridiculous British Mediocre

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