Morton Feldman

The people who you think are radicals might really be conservatives. The people who you think are conservative might really be radical.

Avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, in Darmstadt, Germany, as quoted by Alex Ross in “Sibelius: Apparition from the Woods” (The New Yorker, July 9, 2007). After quoting Feldman’s statement at the 1984 Summer Courses for New Music, Ross adds that Feldman “began to hum the Sibelius Fifth.”