Abstract

T ANGLEWOOD, SUMMER OF 1955 . Sal was studying with Roger Sessions, I with Boris Blacher. Sal had been working on a road construction crew, somewhere in Westchester, Scarsdale? Virility oozed out of his tanned body, his gestures, strut, eyes, voice, throaty laughter. He'd recently come back from Florence, from studies with Dallapiccola, with Eva, his first wife, she with a beautiful ornate hand. (I can still visualize her copy of Sal's, twelve-tone to be sure, Mass-which may have been performed that summer.) My wariness notwithstanding-his overt sensuality put me on & off guard-our friendship blossomed. With Al Daniels (whose friendship I also valued that summer, but poor Al couldn't deal with the world), we three often boated on the lake. They both liked my neoclassic Brandeis 1955 piano pieces, but Sal found them unhip, they weren't twelve-tone! ... Skip to New York City mid-1960s performances

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