What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
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“I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.”
“There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.”