Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein
Leo Ornstein was an American composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth2 December 1893
CountryUnited States of America
art abstract art-music
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
talking trying compromise
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
connections patterns want
Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.
writing thinking want
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
mean play composer
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
moving writing pieces
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
thinking together lines
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
differences manipulation students
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
improvisation haphazard
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.