I Like The Idea That [mahatma] Gandhi

I've Been Called A Minimalist Composer For More Than 30 Years, And While I've Never Really Agreed With The Description, I've Gotten Used To It.

What Came To Me As A Revelation Was The Use Of Rhythm In Developing An Overall Structure In Music.

In Order To Arrive At A Personal Style, You Have To Have A Technique To Begin With.

I, As A Young Guy Getting Out Of Music School, I Didn't Like The Prospect Of Spending My Life Writing Music For About 200 People.

Satyagraha Is An Opera Which I Wrote For The Netherlands Opera, So It Uses An Orchestra Of Around Fifty, A Chorus Of Forty, And There Are About Seven Soloists. The Opera ... Satyagraha Means Truthful, So It Was A Name [mahatma] Gandhi Used To Describe His Civil Disobedience Movement.