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I Suppose That The Scope And Implications Of Such Forces Have Rendered My Personal Accounting Ritual Pretty Much Obsolete. That's How Things Sometimes Go.

In Any Case, The Fewer Boundaries That Exist Hindering Free Movement Between All Forms Of Articulate Human Cognition, The Better.

Certainly Being In California Has Encouraged A Sustained Commitment To Rethinking The Nature, Purposes, And Relevance Of The Contemporary Arts, Specifically Music, For A Society Which By And Large Seems To Manage Quite Well Without Them.

Questioning The Nature And Implications Of Liminal Instances Necessarily Involves Failure, If Only In The Specifically Technical Sense Of Entering Spaces Where Prevailing Criteria Of Success Scarcely Apply.

When I Left Europe In 1987 I Did So With The Thought That My Relevance As A Composition Teacher Would Benefit From A Certain Cool Distance To Certain Tendencies I Had Been Observing For Several Years With Increasing Disquiet.