Month: May 2024

I am related to a long line of preachers dating back to the very first congregation of Quakers in England, and perhaps it is in my DNA since, apart from the sub...

In looking back on the story of my professional life, the Second Act was played out on the stage of the University of Michigan, where I arrived in August, 1955,...

After graduating “with Distinction” from the University of Michigan, the next period of my life was spent serving in the military. At this time the national dra...

The four years I was in the Air Force Band were also the four years that I was a student at the Catholic University of America, although for the purpose of thes...

During my fourth year in the Air Force and at Catholic University, along with finishing the dissertation and everything else, there remained the problem of find...

During the Spring of 1967 I made the decision to resign from the University of Montana in order to explore orchestral conducting. Actually I had at this time an...

During the Spring of 1967–1968 when I was attending all the rehearsals of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel came as a guest conductor for six weeks. He w...