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Robert Simpson Quotes

Robert Simpson Quotes

All kinds of serious music, that is. I started when the BBC third program was in full swing. It had been going for about 4 years and was a very adventurous, marvelous thing. It happened nowhere else before in the world so it was very exciting to work on. We used to do all sorts of things that had been very neglected or too expensive to be done before. I remember Berlioz' Trojans, for instance, for the first time on the radio with Beecham. That was very exciting. The third program wasn't only a music program. It was also drama and talks and science and philosophy. All kinds of subjects on that level.
Robert Simpson

I'm not interested in vogue. I think "vogue" has ruined composers. Composers have often been in vogue and then faded out. What's in fashion is not important. What is in the substance of the music is what is important. That is what I would try to preserve or try to achieve. And, well, if people want it, that's nice. If they don't, at least I've done my best.
Robert Simpson

I think that a conductor or a performer who wants to perform it will learn it from the score and form his ideas about it. I often find most of them don't want to hear a recording of it before they play it. They don't want to be influenced or disturbed with somebody else's conception of it. They want to form a strong idea of their ow
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