Occupation: Musical Composer Birth: June 18, 1944
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….
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….
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….
It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube..
I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense..
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together..
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces..
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….
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….