Aaron Coplandfue a composer of classical music and film american of Russian origin-a jew. His work is influenced by impressionism and in particular by Igor Stravinsky. Highlighted next to George Gershwin as one of the most important composers of the musical identity of the united States in the TWENTIETH century.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself incredible and inconceivable.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking Is there a meaning to music? My answer would be Yes. And Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be No.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive to set down… some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now today.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldnt know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.