Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

  • -- Elliott Cook Carter Jr 小艾略特·库克·卡特

为什么要为乐团写作?首先,这是一个非常具有挑战性的问题。

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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

巨大的灾难会过去,无论是管弦乐队还是指挥家都不会产生错觉,认为他们做出这样或那样的姿态,将是最终结果的决定性因素。

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'

挑战别人是好事。你需要这么做。有时他们甚至没有意识到你在这么做,比如当你和一个守门员开玩笑说,“今天怎么了?”你失去了吗?”

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

目前的问题是对纯绘画的研究。我不知道巴黎有哪个画家真正在寻找这个理想的世界。

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

我在乐队前现场录制了这首歌,是的,我非常感动,我哭了。

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

作为一名演员,我的问题是我太害羞了,以至于不能真正去做。