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Leo Ornstein
 
Date of birth: 02 December 1893
Date of death: 24 February 2002
Country Of Origin: America
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" A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. "

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" Actually, if you're visually watching the performer, probably a good deal of your attention has now been diverted from the very thing that your attention should be on, and that is listening to the music, listening to the combinations that are being performed for you right there. "

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" Actually, we've got to admit that the large proportion of the concert-going public has still not entirely reconciled itself to the modern idiom. "

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" Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. "

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" 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. "

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" Besides, the interesting thing is this: that it's not at all impossible that a person taking a piece of your own music may play it in some fashion that hadn't even occurred to you and which you would be perfectly accepting - you will simply say Yes, I think it enhances the piece, played that way. "

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" But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. "

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" By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. "

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" By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. "

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" Every time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear. "

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" Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent. "

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" I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm. "

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" I distrust anything that you don't hear. "

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" I haven't the faintest idea, my dear child, why one series of notes going that-a-way makes something change in the motive that hounds us, and another chord that goes that-a-way simply leaves us absolutely, utterly unmoved. "

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" I know that there are some people who apparently operate with their eyes on the paper. They are more guided almost by the pattern. "

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