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Leo Ornstein

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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.


— Leo Ornstein


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Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.


— Leo Ornstein


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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.


— Leo Ornstein


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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.


— Leo Ornstein


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To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.


— Leo Ornstein


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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.


— Leo Ornstein


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You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.


— Leo Ornstein


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Did you know about Leo Ornstein?

Though he gave his last public concert before the age of forty he continued writing music for another half-century and beyond. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic.

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