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"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."

"I like that people are being respectful and trying to be good social advocates. But it's kind of sad to me that this movement has, in a way, stifled art."

A great way to become familiar with a composer's work is to perform it. Zachary Gordin, the General Director of Festival Opera in Walnut...

"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."

"The book is full of a sense of time and a sense of place. I think she talks about the feeling that time is shrinking and expanding. I think so much of it relates to how we feel about time and space and our bodies and sensation and memory."

"That monologue is not all of my life. At some point I need to go beyond it and explore other areas of my life publicly."

"I wanted to unearth what he does, how he does it, and the passion he has about it.”

"It was an unusual one for me. I entered into it without the usual big idea."