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23.09.2012, 05:02
My decision to put programmatic content/titles with my music came in the early 70’s. I had been conditioned, like all young composers then, to see programmatic music as inferior to absolute music. I was told that many superficial, nineteenth-century works with programmatic titles would not hold the audience’s attention without their programs.
I heard some of those pieces. They were so poorly put together that I’d have quickly lost interest if I hadn’t been ...