Terry Teachout : (6)

" I’ve always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. " - Terry Teachout

" I don’t know anybody in the opera business who isn’t worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock. " - Terry Teachout

" Life usually tells the best stories – but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. " - Terry Teachout

" In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out. " - Terry Teachout

" ‘Man and Superman,’ first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw’s greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours. " - Terry Teachout

" Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can’t save a bad film, and a bad score – so it’s said – can’t sink a good one. " - Terry Teachout