John Eaton
John Eaton
John Henry Eatonwas an American politician and diplomat from Tennessee who served as U.S. Senator and as Secretary of War in the administration of Andrew Jackson. He was 28 years old when he entered the Senate, making him the second-youngest U.S. Senator in history after Armistead Thomson Mason. Eaton resigned as Secretary of War as part of a strategy to resolve the Petticoat affair, a social scandal that involved Eaton and his wife, Peggy, and hindered the effectiveness of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 June 1790
CountryUnited States of America
We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.
The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.
I wish that every opera company in America had a VOX season. There is nothing more helpful in making the public aware of the richness and variety of operatic music being written today. The composers represent the entire country. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the VOX season is a National Treasure!
Not that one shouldn't use all of those technical advantage, but the essence of what's being communicated shouldn't be technology.
Well, I can't agree with you more, and I really wish every piece of mine were recorded, and I wish I had spent more time trying to pursue that.
At least for now the canyon is preserved.
I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.
So, to me, it's a question of not being afraid to embrace the tradition but also not being afraid to dive into boiling oil on occasion.
Of course, in opera, you involve the audience so much with action and with what's happening on stage, that the music is the center of that action.
What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.