Despite Everything

What

Music

Performing

My parents told me often that they gave me a recorder when I was two years old and they were amazed that I was able to make melodies on it.

I’m amazed too… and, I don’t believe the story.

In any case, the recorder became “my voice” for much of my youth. And music became one of my primary modes of expression.

Composing

When I was in high school I learned about Arnold Schoenberg and his Twelve-tone technique of composing. I went home and created a few tone rows of my own and began composing.

I have had a couple of my own compositions performed:

I have had a composition published:

My brother and I had a radio program on KPFK in Los Angeles (which is described (slightly) in the link above).

Our family’s music

When Avigail was born I asked my parents to make a recording of the lullabies they had sung to us. Finally, on July 4th, 1987, our mother recorded a tape. When she was about 90 years old Noam digitized the tape and I burnt it onto a CD.

 

 


 

 

A Starting Point

© Mark Hurvitz
Last modified November 11, 2006