‘To Be Useful Is Something Incredible’: Leo Brouwer Reflects On His Legacy
Heard on All Things Considered
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“To be useful is something incredible, because you’re at the service of the world,” Brouwer says in Spanish. “Humans, when they communicate, when they teach, when they show, when they give … they’re doing one of the most beautiful things in life … Perhaps my roots in solitude, of being an orphan — it forces me to these reflections.”
