I thought it was just a pretty title. That title was given to me by my mother. I came back from Europe and called up my mother, and the first thing she said to me was 'Madam Press died last week at ninety'. I was in Paris, it was early in the morning, I found myself in the Rue Furstenberg, and I had the association of Delacroix's studio and that world. I met Heine .
Titles are very peculiar things.
I just felt there was something about my life in Berlin that suggested these very flat, factual titles. When I write, I write swiftly, not quickly. I usually write straight off in ink. Yes it can - it's usually the same thing. For me composition is orchestration, and so what leads me to begin a composition is a weight, an orchestration, which is new for me.