13 March 2013
Guest speaker in ear-training classes
Today I spoke to two different classes at Cal. State University, Fresno. I played two of my Interval Studies and answered the students' questions.
The students asked me about my musical life, how I became a composer, why I wrote Interval Studies. We started with a sing-along of "Somewhere" from West Side Story, showing how Bernstein used minor sevenths all through the accompaniment. Then I played my study based on that piece. It was very gratifying to be invited as composer to address the two ear-training classes.