5. Dusty Dusk
Tacoma, 1974 — As a teenager, I was into all kinds of art — sketching, painting, reading plays, and writing poetry. Lots of poems, my way of a kind of diary writing, expressing to myself the places, relationships, and feelings. (I won’t reveal any of this naive creative work here.) Later, two poems in particular…
4. Sound Painting
Interlochen, 1973 — Gunther Schuller composed Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee in 1959 after leaving the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra horn section. Commissioned for the Minneapolis Symphony, it portrays musical analogs for seven works by Swiss painter Paul Klee (1879-1940). Schuller wrote, “Each of the seven pieces bears a slightly different relationship to the…
3. Sketching Places
Ann Arbor, 1969 — From the beginning of my study of trombone, I was an avid player. In high school, I took lessons with top U.Mich. trombone students in Ann Arbor. Playing in high school band and the Michigan Youth Symphony, I also started my own little brass group, the Streetcorner Brass, to play on…
2. Musique Française
Ann Arbor, 1968 — Having begun composing in 1963, I started formal composition study in 1968 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. American composer Eugene Kurtz, based in Paris but filling in that semester at Michigan, was assigned to teach the new freshman. A proponent of modern French music, his compositional models included…
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