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How do music and nature connect in your work?
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NewMusicBox Staff

  • Jan 1, 2004

How do music and nature connect in your work?

John Luther Adams, Bill Fontana, Richard Lerman, Cheryl E. Leonard, and Robert Morris explain.

Written By

NewMusicBox Staff

John Luther AdamsJohn Luther Adams
For me, music and nature are one and the same…
Bill FontanaBill Fontana
…music, in the sense of meaningful sound patterns, is a natural process that is going on constantly…
Cheryl LeonardCheryl Leonard
…in this post-Cage world, I’m not really supposed to compose in front of a piano am I?
Richard LermanRichard Lerman
For me, music and nature connect through observation…
Robert MorrisRobert Morris
…it was only in 1989 that I woke up to a direct connection between music and the outdoors, a connection Bartók and Beethoven must have felt…

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