14. Pi, Primes, Palindromes
Blue Ridge Mountains, 2005 — In 2005 through 2008, I lived in North Carolina only an hour away from the Parkway. October Saturdays always involved a scenic drive up to the Parkway to absorb the glorious fall colors and trickling of secret waterfalls. So many wonderful waterfalls, I recorded many videos, mostly for the sound.…
13. Millennium
Taiwan, 2001 — In my administrative career, 2001 was a high point, as interim dean of UNT College of Music, then the largest music school in the nation. Though I hired several professors, launched a magazine and Dean’s donor group, and headed up our part of a university capital campaign, I didn’t do any composing.…
12. Zweite Wiener Schule
Vienna, 1992 — The so-called “Second Viennese School” consisted of influential master composer Arnold Schoenberg and his protegés, Alban Berg and Anton Webern in early 20th-century Vienna. They pioneered a compositional approach described succinctly by Wikipedia as “totally chromatic expressionism without a firm tonal centre, often referred to as atonality; and later, Schoenberg’s serial twelve-tone…
11. Moravská Hudba
Brno, 1991 — I first visited Czechoslovakia in 1991 to perform at the Brno International Music Festival. How this opportunity came about is a story in itself. My colleague Tom Sovik at the University of North Texas joined a group promoting the City of Dallas as a sister city with Brno, the second largest Czech…
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