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George Crumb

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In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.


— George Crumb


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It is easy to write unthinking music.


— George Crumb


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Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.


— George Crumb


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Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.


— George Crumb


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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.


— George Crumb


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Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.


— George Crumb


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Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.


— George Crumb


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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.


— George Crumb


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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.


— George Crumb


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The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.


— 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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