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BBC Proms 2015: Luca Francesconi, HK Gruber, Raymond Yiu, Shiori Usui, Joanna Lee, Betsy Jolas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2015

Extract

‘The desire to create’, wrote Copland, ‘is the basic need to make evident one's deepest feelings about life’. This aspiration to use art for self-expression, or even self-discovery, is universal amongst composers, but is always accompanied by the danger that the subject matter ends up too close to the composer's psyche, leading to a self-indulgence in the music.

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References

1 Aaron Copland, Music and Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), pp. 40–41.