“Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
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“There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
Author: Brian Ferneyhough
Category: failure
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“Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
Author: Brian Ferneyhough
Category: failure
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“With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
Author: Brian Ferneyhough
Category: respect
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“When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
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“When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.”
— Brian Ferneyhough
Author: Brian Ferneyhough
Category: teacher
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