I’m presently preparing myself for a holiday visit to Belize, where I hope to do some scuba diving at one of the world’s largest coral reefs! Rebecca, Naomi, and I will all be there from Dec. 6 – 20. In the meantime, I’m working on a large orchestral work to be premiered by the Round…

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. —Mahatma Gandhi

Almost 125 years later, the words of Walt Whitman touch me deeply: ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara – nor you, ye limitless prairies – nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite – nor Yellowstone,…