"When composing I always try to find a definite shape. I believe that there is some mysterious moment of coincidence. If I can find and express it in my music, the listener will respond to it and perceive it as an echo of his own emotions.
Let him think afterwards of some¬thing entirely different — he is already my collaborator. The origin of such a coincidence is a mystery. Sometimes, for instance, I have to compose something in a short time, but, alas, I can't. Then I choose a book and start reading. Three days are left, but I'm still reading. And then suddenly the music comes in a flow and fills the whole of my being. Something has rendered me a required formula, something emotional and inexplicable, since the characters of the book I read lived a different and remote life. But the formula has been given and it helps to decipher the meaning of my own emotional supplies, which needed a hint, a prompt to rise to the surface of consciousness.
Doga is a State Prize winner, but the highest award did not change his nature: he did not become an impo¬sing person either in his attitudes or in his way of life. He works as passionately as ever and is always dissa¬tisfied with the results achieved. Now he is composing a new ballet about good and evil, about progressive forces confronting reaction; the factual ground for it is being taken from the history of Latin America. And one may be sure that a bright, optimistic and tender note, so characteristic of Doga's music, will reveal itself in the new ballet as well.
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