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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

~Peter Maxwell Davies

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If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

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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.

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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.

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You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

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What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

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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.

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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.

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But you can't really know your audiences so well.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Composer

Born: September 8th, 1934

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