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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
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Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution… the clean rhythms… the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.
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