Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein was an American composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth2 December 1893
CountryUnited States of America
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I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm.
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Yes, well, I tell you, because once I have completed a work, I simply am interested only in what I may hear in the next work that's coming.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.
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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
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There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.