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Actually, Most Things I Say In Public Lead More Or Less Directly To My Own Compositional Practice, So I Should Be Careful About Generalizing Lest They Come Back To Haunt Me.

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.

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

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.

Hence My Obstinate Emphasis On Stylistic Continuity From Work To Work Rather Than Specific Sibling Relationships Between The Individual Work And Other Members Of Its Stylistic 'family' In The World Outside.