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Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies
English Composer
Born: Sep 8, 1934
Any Audience Music Think You Your
Related authors: Benjamin Britten Fred Frith Gavin Bryars Michael Tippett Orlando Gibbons Ralph Vaughan Williams Thomas Beecham Thomas Campion
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. Peter Maxwell Davies
You Feedback Performers Audience Get Going Working Your Vacuum
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. Peter Maxwell Davies
Hope Other Medium Williams John Composed Boston Piece Well Occasion Did Any Done Pops Ever Recently
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about. Peter Maxwell Davies
Best People Related Out Possible About Factor Highest Demands Concerned Very Going
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. Peter Maxwell Davies
You Circumstances Underestimate Audience Any Any Circumstances Either Players
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. Peter Maxwell Davies
Music Great Great Deal Think Other See Through Performance Most Pieces Deal How Familiarity Flashy Unfortunate
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. Peter Maxwell Davies
Music You Balance Writing Every Think Society Changes Final Final Answer Boston Point Towards Piece Make Another Answer End Then Pops Chamber
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. Peter Maxwell Davies
Time Mind Inevitable Think Other Dramatic Though Plot Kind Some Pieces Obviously Got Very Orchestral Which Theater Might Even Keen Elements Chamber Suggest
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. Peter Maxwell Davies
Better Older Think Out Know Singers Least Get Getting Want Players
But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. Peter Maxwell Davies
Great You Hate People Word Great Deal Before Older Bit Easier Battles More Take Had Like Deal Becomes Conducting Get Quite Quite A Bit Established Notice Use
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. Peter Maxwell Davies
Work Education Music People Young Consider Vital Only Write Instance Participate Most Very Getting Listen Interested Young People Aspects
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. Peter Maxwell Davies
Education Music Art You Enormous Programs Facing Head Feel Knocking Education Programs Wall Against Your Brick Brick Wall Moment Britain
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. Peter Maxwell Davies
Education Art Sense Profit Invalid Something Make Arts Establishment Against Certainly Britain
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. Peter Maxwell Davies
Mouth Programs Television Participating Town Talk Doing Been Off Conferences Shooting Going Really Radio Recently
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. Peter Maxwell Davies
Government You Business Unless Insistent Sponsorship Make Replace Very Arts Tax Happen Which Should Present

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