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— Leonard Bernstein"When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer."
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Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.
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