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Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
American Composer
Born: Dec 2, 1892
Died: Feb 24, 2002
Because Language Music Think Writing You
Related authors: Eubie Blake George Crumb John Cage John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim Virgil Thomson
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. Leo Ornstein
Music Art Simple Pure Aural Ultimately End In The End
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. Leo Ornstein
Today Music Language Value Recording Enough Intrinsic He Piece Until Make Aesthetic Hear Begin Times Gets Estimate Acquainted Then Really Thing
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. Leo Ornstein
Best Own Composer His Mean Works Necessarily Plays
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. Leo Ornstein
Writing Burden Think Bit Some Almost Periods Became Been
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. Leo Ornstein
Today Language Own Composer Only He Involved Aesthetic His Trying Create Each Actually
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing. Leo Ornstein
You Sometimes Section See Lead Between Another Because How Making Go Just Where Want Rhetorical Pattern Next Next Thing Connection Helps Now Thing
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. Leo Ornstein
You Down Finally System Out Somewhat Write Written Written Down Because Get Your
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. Leo Ornstein
Music Writing Important Structure Factor Piece Very Each
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. Leo Ornstein
You First Controlling Nothing Else Evident Out Something Simply Perfectly Make Exercising Becomes Impulse Just Cannot Modifying Use Technique Techniques Things
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. Leo Ornstein
You Difficult Way Would Rationality Point Between Know Call Line Very Irrational Establish Specific
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music. Leo Ornstein
Music You Writing Will Only Piece Move Interested Really Reason
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things. Leo Ornstein
Music People Some People Way Those Visualization Some Only Performance Concerned Traditional Really Certain Amount Things Associate

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