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"These works have changed me. I think it's allowed me to show more of my humanity."
"What's very powerful about this piece is when you hear these words spoken by people that look like you, who were never, everwhat's very powerful about this piece is when you hear these words spoken by people that look like you, who were never, ever represented in the room represented in the room."
"There is the part where you're dispensing knowledge to people, but there's the part where you actually inspire them to do something."
"Immersive is definitely the buzziest word that gets used. I think we do more event style theater."
"Having played a lot of his music, that it feels remarkably good to play at the instrument, which makes a lot of sense given his virtuosity."
"Good ballet, just like any good art, comes not from the technical execution of it, but the transformation of that technical execution into depth, authenticity, beauty, humanity."
"No one can play bass and sing like esperanza. Who can play all those flutes like Clare? The minute that they stop playing the piece it's gone."
"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."
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