About Me
"From my boyhood I wanted to be a composer, but waited until I was a senior in high school to write my first composition. It was modeled after the music I played at school and community socials. In the little town where I grew up music was communal. Everybody, young and old alike, listened and danced to the same tunes. They came in a one-size-fits-all package that featured such popular dance steps as the waltz, jitterbug and foxtrot. Though I would later become a composer of more sophisticated music, infused in it is the lingering influence of those early years."
Symphonies
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Most Advanced?
We moderns are proud of our achievements. When we compare our technology with that of our ancestors, we see how far we have come. Two hundred years ago our forbears traveled in wagons, used open fires to heat their homes, and struggled to prevent infant mortality. The Scientific Revolution was well underway and was joined by a communication, transportation, and industrial revolution. In our own time new technology in health care, safety, and nutrition have added significantly to life expectancy as well as continued activity into old age. There is, however, an aspect of our existence compared to that of our forebears that may not be tipped in our favor. If we could go back and question a great great grandparent concerning how we humans fit into a broader than this-lifeonly context, we would likely get a response. If, however, the tables were turned and our ancestors could come back and question
us today on the same topic, a blank stare might be our only reply.