“I think greatness happens accidentally–that sometimes one can write a little tiny piece for children or for brass band or something like that, and it may quite easily turn out to be much more important for posterity–if one can worry about posterity–than anyone’s symphonies in B flat minor. I think Schoenberg himself said that you can’t save the world with every Adagio.”
Benjamin Britten (interview, CBC, Nov. 21, 1961)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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