Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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16 published records
01 / recommendation
“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.”
02 / belief
“I think just for pure musical experiences, those albums — the White Album and Abbey Road — were really the peak of their artistic achievement.”
03 / belief
“I think if I have an important body of work and the pieces that I’ve written are good, they will continue on after I’m no longer a living, breathing specimen, and that’s really all I can ask for.”
04 / uncertainty
“We don’t know for sure, but it seems like Cleopatra was probably at that time in her early 30s, maybe mid-30s, and Antony was probably, we’re guessing, maybe 10 years older.”
05 / belief
“I am also the proud owner of a new compact disc boxed set called Collected Works, which I believe is about 40 compact discs, and a Blu-ray of Nixon in China.”
06 / belief
“The greatest one is Janet Suzman, who’s actually a South African actress. I think she was active in the early 1960s or so.”
07 / evaluation
“I’ve conducted quite a few of his pieces. They are not, I have to admit, 100 percent satisfying, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that Ives never heard these pieces, or hardly ever heard them.”
08 / evaluation
“Of course, now, it gets increasingly harder to live here because San Francisco itself has become taken over by tech.”
09 / preference
“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.”
10 / uncertainty
“I have my own impression of him, and I don’t know if I’m going to go to a Hollywood movie and see somebody else’s imitation of Oppenheimer.”
11 / evaluation
“If the letter was as snotty as the one that I wrote Leonard Bernstein, I don’t know if I’d write him back.”
12 / preference
“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.”
13 / preference
“I love James Levine doing Otello, but a lot of other recordings don’t quite work for me, or I love von Karajan doing Falstaff, but everything has to be perfect.”
14 / preference
“Then I made a recording of a Sunday morning revivalist preacher talking about Jesus and the man with the withered hand.”
15 / evaluation
“In the case of the piece that you mentioned, On the Transmigration of Souls — this was a request from the New York Philharmonic to compose a memorial piece which was going to be performed exactly a year after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th. It was not an assignment that I was terribly happy about because I had other plans, and it seemed like it was going to be a very difficult subject matter to deal with, this terrible tragedy and all those people who were killed.”
16 / evaluation
“” In most cases, it’s just individual songs. I think I show my age when I talk about that period because I’m so fond of it.”