"Malhaars are ragas that are designed to beckon rain...am I somehow beckoning the thing that I am trying to write about the disappearance of?"
"So much of what I've learned from these writers, from these musicians of the past, makes me the artist that I am today."
"I think if composers are being honest, whenever we assign a program to abstract instrumental music, we're always doing a little bit of myth-making."
"I just wanted people to experience this music in a primal and hypnotic way. Kind of going back to what made us fall in love with music in the first place."
It wasn't just his tenor voice, but there was something bordering on ethereal about his singing. Perhaps it was his 3-1/2 octave range that first grabbed me.
"Her music has that sense of being arresting and shakes us up. But it also just sounds so right and so organic."
"I think Dot is trying to teach us, and teach George in that moment, that just choosing and going forward is all we can do."
"This show forces you to actually go into the deepest part of yourself."
"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
"There was a palpable feeling building in the audience that we knew she would make it to the finish line in breathtaking form."