Aaron Copland

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Not the composer but the pithy essayist, late in life.

The art of music has, for a long time now, suffered from an overdependence on consecrated names. When music lovers speak of composers, they are generally referring, in the whole history of music, to half a hundred famous names of whom perhaps half a dozen belong to our era. This does serious injustice to many valuable composing talents, both of the past and of the present.

-- notes to Phoenix PHCD 106