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Mar 8 06 1:07 AM
Quote:It was this summer [1963], after my family joined me in Rome (after scoring SODOM AND GOMORRAH), that I wrote the Notturno Ungherese for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Mr Benjamin, a southern millionaire who every year (emphasis mine) commissioned a piece for the orchestra from a composer recommended to him. This year I was the one recommended by Eugene Ormandy. When I met Benjamin he told me he didn't mind what the piece was, as long as it was quiet; he liked to have quiet music in his office while he was woarking. So once again I was to write background music.
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