Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy View
Page turns are an annoying nuisance for musicians, especially performers of chamber music. The problem is worse for pianists, since
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Life and Career of Robert Cunningham
The 2019 Musical Soirée
Musical soirées were an important part of my musical life for about a dozen years beginning in the early 1980s.
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Welcoming the Bösendorfer
On August 21, I posted about the day five years earlier, on August 21, 2018, when I parted ways with
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Farewell to the Kawai
If you love life as passionately as I do, then you embrace progress with enthusiasm, but sometimes you also experience
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The 1984 Recital
Having recently come out with a new recording of my Piano Sonata No. 2, I naturally find myself reminiscing about
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Proust, Shakespeare, and Sonnet XVIII
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote just one masterpiece, an epic novel titled À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of
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Another Evening in Minnesota
In an earlier post I described a very successful recital I presented in the fall of 1990 at the
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The DeKalb College Concert
The 1980s and 1990s were not only prolific years for me as a composer, but also a busy period of
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The Craft of Composition
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” –Johannes Brahms A young acquaintance of mine informed me
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Passionate Melody of Life (Part II)
In my last post (Part I), I explained how my Nocturne No. 2 (subtitled “Passionate Melody of Life”) had been
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Passionate Melody of Life (Part I)
On May 2, 2017, I received an email that would significantly affect my life in the years that followed. The
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The Hapless History of the Horn Trio
Probably most composers have experienced major setbacks and disappointments in their careers, and I am certainly no exception. Recovering from
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The 1990 Atlanta Recital
The image is from the program to a recital I gave in November 1990 in Atlanta, where I lived then.
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The Ciompi-Withers Duo
As an undergraduate at Duke University (1966-1970), I had the good fortune of studying with two outstanding performers, pianist Loren
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An Evening in Minnesota
On two occasions during my musical career I have journeyed to the snowy hinterlands of Minnesota to give recitals. My
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