When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
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Nationality: American Type: Businessman Born: December 20, 1934 |
“The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.”
“I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”