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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

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