Photo of Tiết Tôn-Thất
Photo of Tiết Tôn-Thất

Tiết Tôn-Thất

“As a professor, [André Jolivet] has never tried to influence me, nor push me toward any special kind of style. Our professor-student relationship was of a spiritual order. Yet through his suggestion and what Rivier had said, I came to realize that it was in the oriental way of thinking that I would find my style in music. I owe to Rivier the language and the shaping of my music which, as Jolivet has said, should be 'a mean to express ideas and not an aim in itself.'”

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