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" An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. "
Complacency
Audience
Listen
" At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. "
You
Feel
Education
" But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. "
More
Battles
Great
" But you can't really know your audiences so well. "
Your
Audiences
Know
" 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. "
Great
Deal
Music
" 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. "
Audience
Aim
You
" If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. "
You
Going
Working
" 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. "
Think
Music
Balance
" I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. "
Out
Want
Think
" I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. "
Kids
More
Pieces
" I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. "
Got
Time
Inevitable
" I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. "
People
Music
Education
" 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. "
Done
Well
I Hope That
" Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. "
Mouth
Radio
Doing
" 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. "
Going
Possible
People
" The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. "
Education
Profit
Art
" The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. "
You
Business
Arts
" What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think. "
Expect
Made
Going
" You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. "
Your
Them
Short
" You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. "
Underestimate
Circumstances
Any
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