One Composer's Thoughts

I think that I studied with a student of Robert Beaser, a composer named Robert F. Jones, from whom I commissioned a guitar duet in the late 1970s. I believe the cost of the commission was a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label. In any case, here is an interesting essay by Robert Beaser on the odd vocation of being a composer at this point in history:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/the-reconstruction-of-rome/?pagewanted=all

I used to play his Mountain Songs for flute and guitar: