Author: Peter Maxwell Davies

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I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

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