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Sometimes One Can Be So Closely Involved With Things That The Larger Context Is Lost To View.

When I Speak Of "cycles," I Am Referring To Lengthy Intervals Of Relative Homogeneity, If Not In The Resolving Of Problems, Than At Least With Respect To The Consistency Of Their Capacity To Productively Irritate.

I Frequently Compose Out The Entire Metric Structure Of A Piece In Modified Cyclic Form, Where Each Cyclic Revolution Undergoes Some Form Of 'variation' Much As If Measure Lengths Were Concrete Musical 'material.'

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.

What Makes A Specific Quality Or Quantity Of Innovation Retain Its Intense Newness Over The Years?