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Growing up in a traditional Jewish home and attending Columbia University, Kula cites the diversity of New York City in terms of people, ideas, food, and music, as an experience […]
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On composing around the digressive, self-centered poetry of Newash.
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Harbison discusses his influences and recounts seeing Stravinsky conduct.
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People need to be honored for doing their part.
Self-improvement with a purpose.
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Reality, Kula says, is a giant connect-the-dots game.
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No one is totally true, nor are they totally false. Transcript:A personal philosophy? I don’t know. I don’t think I have any grand philosophical philosophy. I guess it would be […]
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali says America should invest in African industries.
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Are we capable of imaging the world in which we are not there anymore.
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Every decision about what's worthwhile in this country has to do with its economic power.
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Everyone in the world has written a poem.
Did you manage during the day to do one thing you really wanted to do?
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On reconciling Bach and the Holocaust.
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Harbison's interest in history keeps him from being fully optimistic.
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Sometimes just sitting down and knocking out a cord on the piano can be enough.
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Harbison strives to create a tenacious afterimage.
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Harbison never thought he'd have any interest in doing anything but music.
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Harbison lives with, amid and around music.
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Our capacity for reason empowers us to overcome the bad side of our characters.