"A composer's awareness of the plurality of functions of his own tools forms the basis for his responsibility just as,…"

"Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dra…"

"Collections of all twelve pitch classes can be differentiated from one another only by assigning an order to the pitc…"

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"A fugue is like a canon, in that it is usually based on one theme which gets played in different voices and different…"

"To give an idea of how extraordinary a six-part fugue is, in the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, containing for…"

"As legendary bands in the scene continued to mature musically and grow away from the genres that they became known fo…"

"At this point in heavy-music history, the breakdown is as much a building block of metal as the thrash gallop, the bl…"