PS : Pour les Beatles, ils ont eu aussi la chance d'avoir un Georges Martin pour tout ce qui concernait les orchestrations, au moins jusqu'Ã Sergeant Peppers. - Compositeur .org - Forum des Compositeurs : Musique et Composition
Wiley Hitchcock gave me a fellowship at the Institute for Studies in American Music, and helped me get back in touch with my non-classical musical roots, to remember who I am and am not. I learned different things from each of them, and from other people, but the most important thing they did in common was that they encouraged me to be myself and to keep going. I never really felt at home in the kind of conservatory atmosphere Juilliard generated.
Question : Not at home in what way?
LS: Conservatory students tend to be very young, and are too often there because they've been outstanding at something rather than because they love it and want to learn all they can. Having been child virtuosi, they may be snobbish. Or they may have acquired techniques without having anything self-motivated which they wish to use those skills for, and become either excessively concerned with technique itself or overly influenced by other people's ideas. When I was studying, I wasn't very attracted to the atonal, pointilist, or serialist schools of thought, which were still extremely dominant. I wasn't studying composition because I wanted to write like "contemporary" composers, but because I wanted to be more - and more skillfully - involved in music, had already found myself composing, and wanted to find or make more music that I could really feel close to, music like that which I loved best. I also wanted to make music (for example, the meditation piece THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE) which I had envisioned, which should have existed somewhere, but which I hadn't been able to find. I wanted to learn. I was regarded as musically suspect in that child-prodigy-oriented atmosphere, as it was known that I had started composing relatively late, having been an improviser who didn't even learn written notation until age 20. Some people were patronizing, and others just didn't take me seriously. The individuals I mentioned above were among those who were instrumental in keeping me from giving up on music altogether. Others would tell me that I was uneducated if I didn't use a key signature, and then tell me that I was either reactionary or unimaginative if I did use one. What I did have going for me was that I had developed my ear by playing (even if I didn't know the names for what I heard), and I already knew what my musical values were. I knew what I wanted to do and tried hard to learn how. And I did learn a lot there.[...]
+ Le temps qu'ils accodent à leur Art, aujourd'hui et jusqu'à leur dernier souffle - Compositeur .org - Forum des Compositeurs : Musique et Composition
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