Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not ton….

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube..

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world..

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I t….

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first tim….

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts..

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world ….

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course..

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as ….

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance..

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Coplan….

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their cat….

I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair….

I don't think of my music as being about something..

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense..

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with….

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise..

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in ….

With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think ….

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really d….

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative..