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A Texas upbringing – and living now in Brooklyn, too – have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it’s not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin – such silences and spaces! – or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

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As I was growing up and learning this business, I don’t think there’s a job I didn’t do. I started at the bottom and worked my way up. No matter what the job, I always looked for ways we could create value.

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April 23, 2024

As I was growing up and learning this business, I don’t think there’s a job I didn’t do. I started at the bottom and worked my way up. No matter what the job, I always looked for ways we could create value.

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April 23, 2024

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

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