“Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow man...” — Steven Stucky Quote

Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forward rather than a step back.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.