You need something like Sesame Street to sort of increase the volume of good in the world. And also to know that through creativity, you can make change. Positive change can occur if you’re willing to see a problem and try to fix it and do it creatively.
— Trevor Crafts
Steve Rose, “The Secret History of Sesame Street: “It was utopian – it’s part of who we all are”, The Guardian, 11 December 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/11/found-photographs-sesame-street-season-one-utopian, accessed 5 January 2022.
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Richard Bach on perseverance
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach, American writer Applewhite, Ashton; William R. Evans, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003) And I Quote. Macmillan. Macmillan.
Accessibility for kidsBenjamin Britten wrote the score to Instruments of the Orchestra, which would become the concert work, Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra. The theme to the score was based on a hornpipe from Purcell’s Abdelzer. Britten commented to the producer, Basil Wright, that “I was never really worried that it was too sophisticated for kids […]
The creative personThe thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all that there is to it. — Edward Albee, American playwright Kolin, Philip (ed.) (1988) Conversations with Albee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, p.35.
The effort is better than rest“Writing music is seventy-five per cent an intellectual activity. This effort is often more pleasant for me than having a rest.” Conversation with Ravel, recalled by Robert de Fragny, Echo liberté, 7 November 1950. Cited in: Nichols, Roger (1987) Ravel Remembered. London: Faber & Faber., p. 61.
Inner-most feelings can be expressed in musicTaneyev was critical of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Tchaikovsky’s response ended with: “I can see you laughing as you read all of this, you sceptic and mocking-bird. In spite of your great love of music it seems you still can’t believe that a man can express his inmost feelings in his compositions. You just wait!” Cited […]
Brass ensembleNever bore your listenersConductor and pianist Seymour Lipkin (born 1928) recalled piano lessons with his teacher, Bohemian-born pianist Rudolf Serkin: He said so many memorable things to me that I continue to pass on to my students. A few examples: “The worst crime you can commit as an artist is to bore your listeners”; for another, “People who […]
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Out of practice“All I have left is a long nose and a fourth finger out of practice.” Chopin, in Scotland, unable to visit his friend Julian in London because of ill health. Cited in: Zaluski, Iweo & Pamela (1993) The Scottish Autumn of Frederick Chopin. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, p.23.