This journal "Source: Music of the Avant-garde" was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, "Source" documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others. Virginia Anderson edits the first published collection of these conversations. She pairs each interview with a contextual essay by a contemporary expert that shows how the composer's discussion with Childs fits into his life and work. Together, the interviewees cover a broad range of ideas and concerns around topics like education, notation, developments in electronic music, changing demands on performers, and tonal music. Innovative and revealing, Interviews with American Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music at an important crossroads.

Here's what to expect when you read this book. Roy Fugazy getting beat up on the Breakers Golf Course in Florida while playing golf with Larry and American Airlines Executives. Having the Truck Driver who is delivering the luggage to a Westinghouse Group, ending up in jail in Arizona for drinking a beer at lunch. Rescuing 2,000 Grumman employees from Iran when the war broke out in 1979. Having a friend trying to break down the bedroom door in Jamaica to get into the room and go to sleep. Arriving in Bermuda with a Group of 200 people and finding the hotel does not have any rooms available, even though they were confirmed. Having a cat throw up on a customer's food tray on a flight to Florida. Getting a $250,000 Grant from Hillary Clinton for the Long Island Philharmonic, by just asking. Finding out his first Granddaughter was born as he was boarding a flight home from St. Louis. Leaving his wife at the airport in London for a flight to New York on the Concorde and finding out the flight is overbooked. These are just some of the Travel stories, all true, that you will find in this book. Hope you enjoy the ride.

Here's what to expect when you read this book. Roy Fugazy getting beat up on the Breakers Golf Course in Florida while playing golf with Larry and American Airlines Executives. Having the Truck Driver who is delivering the luggage to a Westinghouse Group, ending up in jail in Arizona for drinking a beer at lunch. Rescuing 2,000 Grumman employees from Iran when the war broke out in 1979. Having a friend trying to break down the bedroom door in Jamaica to get into the room and go to sleep. Arriving in Bermuda with a Group of 200 people and finding the hotel does not have any rooms available, even though they were confirmed. Having a cat throw up on a customer's food tray on a flight to Florida. Getting a $250,000 Grant from Hillary Clinton for the Long Island Philharmonic, by just asking. Finding out his first Granddaughter was born as he was boarding a flight home from St. Louis. Leaving his wife at the airport in London for a flight to New York on the Concorde and finding out the flight is overbooked. These are just some of the Travel stories, all true, that you will find in this book. Hope you enjoy the ride.