Rather, it was one of Cage's explorations of the "activity" of sound, the culmination of an idea he first mentioned in a lecture at Vassar college in the late 1940s, speaking of a desire to compose "a piece of uninterrupted silence and sell it to Muzak Co.
It is hard to say who was responsible for this change, but it was inherent in Gershwin's desire to compose a folk opera rather than the blackface musical Al Jolson wanted or the grand opera Otto Kahn asked him to write for the Metropolitan.
After a month of paddling she is finally feeling the desire to compose, though not yet with a sense of urgency.
"A woman must not desire to compose," wrote one of the most promising young composers of the mid-19th century, "not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to?" Was Clara Wieck anticipating the domestic distractions of her imminent marriage to Robert Schumann?
What the stint in hospital provoked was a latent desire to compose light music.
"I once thought that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose – not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to?" The tragedy is, there were women who had gone before Clara Schumann, if only she had known it.
"A woman must not desire to compose – there has never yet been one able to do it.
Despite Game Boy's limited audio capabilities, Uematsu expressed desire to compose music for it again in 2000, though added regarding the notion of a remake "it would be better to have high quality music and graphics, but we need to make sure that the users enjoy the game".
When he married the artist and musician Alma Schindler, who was 19 years his junior, he arrogantly insisted she give up her desire to compose.
Susceptible to the ideas of Blake and other radical theorists and animated by a growing spirit of inquiry into natural phenomena, painters slowly abandoned the picturesque desire to compose and became willing to be moved, awestruck, and terrified by nature unadorned.
If there is poignancy to the letters, it is from reading between the lines what has always been wrenching about Bernstein: his desire to compose when all the world wanted was more of his conducting, and the burden of "West Side Story" as he sought fame for his more "serious" operas, symphonies and masses.
