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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Closely Context Involved Larger Lost Sometimes Things View

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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Arts Being California Certainly Commitment Contemporary Encouraged Large Manage Music Nature Purposes Quite Relevance Seems Society Specifically Sustained Them Well Which Without

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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

~Brian Ferneyhough

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I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Accounting Forces Go How Implications Much Obsolete Personal Pretty Rendered Ritual Scope Sometimes Suppose Things

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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Digestion Extended Frequently Only Painful Periods Possible Quite Reflection

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When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Am Capacity Consistency Cycles Intervals Irritate Least Lengthy Problems Referring Relative Resolving Respect Speak Than I Am

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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

~Brian Ferneyhough

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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Art Assured Being Both Clutter Continue Fashion Just Just One More Mounting Must Nevertheless Object Point Pursuing Some Specific Than Think Vision Where Work World I Think

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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

~Brian Ferneyhough

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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

~Brian Ferneyhough

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: January 16th, 1943

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