I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it’s as well a composed piece as I’ve ever done for any other medium or occasion. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
Recently I’ve been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn’t make a profit, it’s invalid, and art doesn’t make a profit in that sense. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
At the moment, in Britain we’re facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
I’m very interested, for instance, in music in education – getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
I’m obviously very keen on the theater and I think it’s inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it’s not in my mind at the time. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
If you’re writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you’re writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it’s towards another point. I won’t make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
I don’t see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it’s unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
You don’t underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It’s this going for the highest possible factor that I’m very concerned about. Peter Maxwell Davies Read Quote
