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George Crumb

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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.


— George Crumb


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I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.


— George Crumb


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I am optimistic about the future of music.


— George Crumb


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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.


— George Crumb


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I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.


— George Crumb


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I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.


— George Crumb


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I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.


— George Crumb


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I think we're in a very low point of music right now.


— George Crumb


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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.


— George Crumb


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Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.


— George Crumb


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About George Crumb






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In several pieces he asks players to leave and enter the stage during the piece. The title Makrokosmos alludes to Mikrokosmos the six books of piano pieces by Béla Bartók; like Bartók's work Makrokosmos is a serie of short character pieces. Dream Sequence (Images II) (1976) for violin cello piano percussion (one player) and off-stage glass harmonica (two players)
String Trio (1982)
Pastoral Drone (1982) for organ
An Idyll for the Misbegotten (Images III) (1986) for amplified flute and percussion (three players).

He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres alternative forms of notation and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Crumb's music contains an intense humanism which is reflected in his personal definition of music: "a system of proportions in the service of spiritual impulse. Five Pieces for Piano) and using a mallet to play the strings of a contrabass (ex.

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