Continuator: The Autobiography of a Socially-Conscious, Cosmopolitan Composer

Historically, the term "cosmopolitan" has often been combined with the adjective "rootless," to describe members of the Jewish diaspora with a sense of alienation from mainstream culture. The author of this autobiography, the creator of music to words in eleven languages, and translations from each of them into his native English, feels anything but rootless, however, in his devotion to learning from and extending tradition.
In this memoir, he describes the influences of family, mentors, an...