Song cycles and individual song based on lyrics from Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, A. E. Housman, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William Shakespeare. Includes lyrics not under copyright.

Biography showing studies and influences, conducting and piano playing, support of new music, and stylistic development from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.

His operas from U.S.Opera.

Article and photograph from CDeMUSIC. Emphasizes the varied nature of his compositions.

Retrospective of his time as conductor and music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes a general history of his compositions.

"A twentieth-century composer's confessions about the creative process."

The composer talks about the nature of composition, the artificiality of stylistic segregation, and the balance between originality and properly utilizing available forms.

Key works, timeline, recommended recordings, quotes, historical and societal context, photograph, and resources from Humanities Web.

(1922- ), Berlin, Germany. Picture, biography, and discography.

'Anne Frank,' a Holocaust Museum commission, for cello and piano, premier.