As the chorus explains, “People don’t like people like you, people like people like me.”

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But then, who isn’t?

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I do love Billy Reid’s 1945 song “The Gypsy,” so I wrote this viola part so that I could perform it with David Gold.

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A song about falling asleep with the radio on.  As the chorus reminds us, You’ve got to wake up to turn the radio off.

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A melancholy scrap of Shelley; it seemed to call for an equally melancholy round in 5/4.

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A song about being a productive, obedient member of society.  That’s what you want, isn’t it?

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“Shrubs and Bushes” is a set of four short pieces for orchestra.  As I recall, I chose the title for its decorative associations.  I wrote it for my high school orchestra back in 1972, when I was 17.  I had already written a piece for strings, and orchestrated a piano piece by Turina to learn […]

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Materialism and humanism are celebrated here.  That’s what we have to work with, after all.

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A round on a quatrain by Léon-Paul Fargue, in my translation.

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