If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

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 grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

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 catalog.

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

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

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 Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!