Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers

This fine book...is an excellent introduction to the original and provacative thinking of one of today's most important composers. The translation preserves the color and elegance of his prose — American Music TeacherMore…

brings out a playfully snooty side of the....composer right from the start... Anecdotes emerge in this correspondence with intruiging regularity as we see how comfotable Thomson regarded the... — San Francisco ChronicleMore…

he not only writes well and engagingly about Erickson's life and works but sketches a history of his professional milieu, the West Coast New Music scene, over three decades. This larger picture... — ChoiceMore…