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I met Michael Thomas on my second day in California in September of 1962. I had arrived by bus from Canada the day before. I took the then still running Red Car to

Here’s our follow up to our last video, “Balloon”. We call this “My Love is a Balloon” based on a stanza in a poem, “Boy, a Cake and a Balloon” by Wini Hartzenberg.

Dave developed an idea of creating a set of major and minor 6th chords from the roots of a harmonic minor scale. Having that as a set of chords to work from, we

The first three notes of Cole Porter’s “I Love You” has been the signature on almost every card and letter I’ve sent to Caroline over the past 60 years. Five Lines, Treble clef,

It’s been a while since we uploaded a new song. Here’s something that developed out of an improvisation I played on my favorite Keyscape Fender Rhodes patch. Dave then deconstructed it and created

I came across the full version of the MTT: Where Now Is – PBS’s American Masters Documentary on Michael’s wonderful website, www.michaeltilsonthomas.com. At around 32 minutes, I am talking about our time at

Here’s our latest piece, A Dozen Tones. I started with an interesting ostinato of twelve different notes and loved the sound of it doubled in octaves. We then created several percussion palettes to

I wrote a song to process all of the changes in our lives – Caroline living with Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism and my adjusting to the reality of that. Dave and I edited together

For my 65th birthday, Caroline (with the help of Alison Freebairn-Smith) created a beautiful book featuring photos from my career. I thought it would be a wonderful addition to the website, so Dave