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The artistic contribution of any nation and any age must be in terms of creation. Performers, symphony organizations, opera houses, museums, libraries - important as they are - are not enough. The arts, if they are to live, must be living arts.

— Howard Hanson

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As a music theorist, I have always contended that the historical approach to music theory is not enough.

To the artist, to the musician, is given the task of creating and expressing beauty--of sensitizing the souls of men.

The most complete knowledge of tonal material cannot create a composer any more than the memorizing of Webster's dictionary can produce a dramatist or poet.

My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflects, I believe, something of the broad prairies of my native Nebraska."

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