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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of…

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His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering…
As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were…
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of…
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If…
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their…
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things…
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became…
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may…

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