Leila Josefowicz Quotes
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When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
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If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
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People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
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You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
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I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
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My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
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I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.