Peter Maxwell Davies

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#complacency #listen

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

#art #brick #brick wall #britain #cutbacks

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#becomes #before #bit #conducting #deal

But you can't really know your audiences so well. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#know #really #well #you #your

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

#familiarity #flashy #great #great deal #how

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#get #getting #i #i think #know

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

#boston #composed #did #done #ever

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#am #any #i #i am #kids

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#alert #anything #audience #aware #caught

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#feedback #get #going #performers #vacuum