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 leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.
Paul LanskyIf the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
Paul LanskyI 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 grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul LanskyI don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.
Paul Lansky