I've Always Regarded Nature As The Clothing

My Purpose Is To Create Music Not For Snobs, But For All People, Music Which Is Beautiful And Healing. To Attempt What Old Chinese Painters Called 'spirit Resonance' In Melody And Sound.

I Was Born In Somerville, But I Don't Remember Very Much About It Because We Moved From There To Arlington When I Was Five Years Old, And It Was In Arlington That I Spent Most Of My Childhood.

The Composer...joins Heaven And Earth With Threads Of Sounds.

My Mother's Background Was Scottish. She Came From An Old Family, Some Of Whom Lived In Upper New York State And Some Of Whom Had Come Over From Scotland.

This Is Not To Say That The Scots Are Not Fine People, But They Were All Sort Of... Well, My Grandfather Was A Minister And Sort Of Protestant, And This Was Rather Depressing To Me.