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I am just home from another exhausting but terrific week at Pine Lake Music (Atlanta) for the Joseph Martin Composer Symposium. This was my 10th or 11th year to teach at the event, and the [...]

If I’m ever in need of someone to blame for me getting into the music business, and I’m not up to accepting the responsibility for myself, I blame it on Charlie. We all have people that shaped [...]

  “He struggled. He scratched out… If you look at those sketches… you see the agonies that this man went through… And what has finally appeared as the finished product looks as though [...]