Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Bernard Jacobson
• Prelude: Three Sunsets
• Part One: Waking Slow
•   1. The Other Daron: 1887–1961
•   2. The Big Cedar House: 1961–1967
•   3. We’re Little. He’s Big: 1968
•   4. Just Let It Go: 1969–1976
•   5. Waking Slow: 1976–1978
•   6. Cathedral of Dreams: 1978–1979
•   7. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 1979–1981
•   8. Icarus: 1981–1982
•   9. Subjectivity Is Boring: 1982–1984
• 10. Yaddo: 1984–2015
• 11. Copland’s Tears: 1984–1985
• 12. Other Men’s Music: 1985–1987
• 13. Learning to Profess: 1987–1988
• 14. Entre les Pays: 1988–1990
• Part Two: Seeking the Quick
• 15. The Beginning of Something: 1990–1991
• 16. An Uncivil Union: 1991–1996
• 17. No Fear. No Hatred. Just Love: 1996–1997
• 18. Other, More Important Things: 1997–2001
• 19. The Virgin Mary Question: 2001–2004
• 20. Espina: 2004
• 21. Pale Purple Line: 2004–2006
• 22. Hamilton Heights: 2007–2010
• 23. Unmerited Favor: 2010–2012
• 24. The Deal with Fauré’s Ballade: 2012–2013
• 25. People and Process: 2013–2015
• 26. We’re All—All Here: 2015–2017
• Postlude: Two Dawns
• List of Works and Premieres
• Select Discography
• Index