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“I think that film composers market themselves and basically give directors what they want. And a lot of the taste that even the greatest directors — people like Steven Spielberg — have is just very sentimental and, to me, rather tacky, which is why most of the film score music I like comes from France or Italy, not America.”
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“I think that film composers market themselves and basically give directors what they want. And a lot of the taste that even the greatest directors — people like Steven Spielberg — have is just very sentimental and, to me, rather tacky, which is why most of the film score music I like comes from France or Italy, not America.”
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“For that, my collaborator, Peter Sellars, and I found a lot of texts by women, particularly by Hispanic women from Mexico and Chile, that told first-hand the experience of birth. And I like doing that because Handel’s Messiah, which of course treats the same material, just comes from the Bible.”
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“They would be accompanied usually by his longtime collaborator, Blue Gene Tyranny, who played in a sort of light, bluesy, sometimes gospel-style piano. But it was Ashley’s — I don’t know — this very special Americana that you associate with road movies and quiet, anonymous people talking about their relationships or their experiences in a diner or a gas station or an automobile.”
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“Then I made a recording of a Sunday morning revivalist preacher talking about Jesus and the man with the withered hand.”