Always his own man
Always his own man
"It's rather odd, these days, thinking back to the days in the 1960s and '70s when the musical world was riven by the competing claims of tonal and atonal music: in our own polystylist times we simply accept music as good or bad, regardless of the manner of its expression. That's as it should be, of course, but we shouldn't forget the kind of pressure that composers were under to keep abreast of the times - that is, write serial music."
