I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.
We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.