Michael Hersch Quotes - Page 2

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• The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.

  Michael Hersch

  Believe, Writing, People

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• I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

  Michael Hersch

  Years, Important, Meetings

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.

  Michael Hersch

  Hands, Groups, Culture

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• I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.

  Michael Hersch

  Years, Order, Satisfaction

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

  Michael Hersch

  Iron, Fire, Brain

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• There are times I'm completely uncomfortable with my works being performed publicly, and I haven't attended certain concerts because the prospect is akin to having a diary read on stage. But there are also situations - whether with an audience of one, or many - where the concert experience can be deeply special, and those experiences are often unpredictable, and wonderful when they occur.

  Michael Hersch

  Audience Of One, Special, Diaries

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• I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.

  Michael Hersch

  Communication, Mean, Writing

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