I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
