Biography Roger Reynolds

[Roger Reynolds at the Tate Modern Gallery, London, England]. Malcolm Crowthers, photographer. Roger Reynolds Collection, Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress. (copyright, Malcolm Crowthers)

Education and Early Career

Roger Reynolds was born on 18 July 1934 in Detroit, Michigan, and was educated in music and science at the University of Michigan. He has responded to the variety in the contemporary world with a perhaps uniquely diversified output, music that ranges from the purely instrumental and vocal to engagements with computers, video, dance, and theater.

While the works of many composers have focused on and explored the potential of a single technique, Roger Reynolds has created a body of work that encompasses nearly every major musical development in the 20th century. As well as incorporating new techniques into his music, Reynolds is responsible for initiating many of the new developments. The theater piece The Emperor of Ice Cream, for instance, became the model for a new genre, and its influence is evident in the numerous imitations it spawned. [Ciro G. Scotto, Contemporary Composers, St. James Press, Chicago/London, 1992]

Reynolds came upon music as a life's focus almost by chance when his architect father directed him to purchase some phonograph records with the admonishment that he was not to "…get any of that popular stuff". He took up the study of the piano as a teenager, and his teacher, Kenneth Aitken, required not only grappling with classic keyboard literature including the Brahms f-minor Sonata, Liszt rhapsodies, Chopin and Debussy, Bach and Beethoven, but also knowledge of the cultural contexts out of which this music emerged. He was expected to write about the music as well as to perform it.

The Emperor of Ice Cream

Emperor (1961-62) was Reynolds' first theatrical
work. Written for the Bob James Trio and the
ONCE Festivals in Ann Arbor, Michigan, its
score specifies not only non-traditional vocal
behaviors with a novel and evocative notation, but
also the performers' positions on the stage (left
<-> right) so as to control the spatial effects of
performer movement and repositioning. The
title is taken from and the work shaped by the
Wallace Stevens poem of the same name.

Uncertain about his prospects as a professional pianist, Reynolds entered the pioneering Engineering Physics program at the University of Michigan and obtained a degree that took him to Los Angeles and work in the missile industry. Thinking better of this direction after a short stint as a systems development engineer, he returned to Ann Arbor vowing to commit himself fully to music and the pursuit of excellence as a pianist. It was not long, however, before the University of Michigan's charismatic resident composer, Ross Lee Finney, introduced him to the excitements of musical composition. He began producing music of his own, and it was featured at Midwest Composers Symposia, occasions that involved first encounters with lifelong friend and colleague, Harvey Sollberger. Reynolds also became a co-founder of the ONCE Festivals with composer colleagues Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Donald Scavarda and George Cacioppo. Subsequently, when Spanish expatriate and former Schoenberg student Roberto Gerhard came to Ann Arbor, he became a decisive influence, captivating Reynolds's mind and spirit with his questing and ardent dedication to a life lived in and through music. During his time at the university, Reynolds also encountered Milton Babbitt, Edgard Varèse, Nadia Boulanger, and John Cage, and each made a mark upon his outlook. As this period was coming to a close, C.F. Peters Corporation offered to publish his work, and this relationship continued on an exclusive basis.

At one lesson, while he was completing a Master's degree by attending the University year-round in an accelerated program, Reynolds found his mentor uncharacteristically passive. "I've nothing more to teach you," said Finney. Shortly thereafter, he left Ann Arbor embarking on a pilgrimage that was to take him to Germany and, with spouse Karen, to France, Italy, and Japan. Initiating this period abroad in 1962, Reynolds worked at the West German Radio's electronic music center in Köln. The couple then produced and performed on concerts in Paris, Rome, and Tokyo. Their daughter, Erika, was born in Japan where they founded and produced the CROSS TALK music and media series and began lifelong friendships with composers Toru Takemitsu, Yuji Takahashi, and Joji Yuasa as well as with painter Keiji Usami and theatre director Tadashi Suzuki.

While they were attending a Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored week with the Seattle Symphony in 1965, the Foundation's Arts Officer, Howard Klein, offered the Reynoldses an opportunity to travel down the West Coast to visit and assess the various music programs there. On a trip that ended in La Jolla, they visited the then fledgling UC San Diego campus. Several years later, the Department of Music's first Chair, Will Ogdon, sought out the young couple in Japan and brought them to UC San Diego, offering Reynolds an appointment as a tenured Associate Professor in 1969. Once in residence, he immediately began working with his new colleagues to establish the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research (now the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. He became its inaugural Director in 1971.

The Music: Technology and Text

Archipelago

Archipelago was written in 1982-83, on commission
from Ircam in Paris. Scored for a 32-member
ensemble and 8-channel computer-processed
sound, it involves a mosaic of fifteen themes and
their variations. Just over a half-hour in length,
Archipelago utilizes not only live instrumental
forces, but also computer manipulated recordings
of the same instrumental materials that are
performed live.

By the late 60's, Reynolds had begun to incorporate electronic elements into some of his works. And in the late 70's, his engagement with computers began (initially at Stanford University's CCRMA facility). Technology continued to represent for him a natural means of augmenting formal and timbral resources. This can be particularly observed in three major works written in Paris on commission from Ircam: Archipelago (1982-83), Odyssey (1989-93), an opera in the mind on a bilingual text by Beckett, and The Angel of Death (2000-2001), for solo piano, chamber orchestra, and 6-channel computer processed sound.

Archipelago (1982-83) for large ensemble and computer generated, eight-channel tape...is based upon real instrumental sounds, and [the computer] rarely seems an alien force imposing upon or subverting the live ensemble. Instead, it acts like a sort of hyperorchestra, expanding instrumental possibilities.

Sometimes, with eyes closed, the tape is so lifelike that it can barely be distinguished from the ensemble. Reynolds, who has a strong background in ensemble music, is an accomplished orchestrator who can create interesting effects from standard instruments. And by getting the ear to trust the tape, he makes its imaginative forays seem all the more astounding.

The fascination in Archipelago, though, is the way in which the composer builds meaningful musical structures out of the interaction between computer and live player. The work is long (about half an hour) and is a complex mosaic of always changing textures and thematic ideas. Archipelago, in fact, seems to be as much about ideas as it is about sounds...[it] holds the attention as a musical and expressive sonic kaleidoscope where sound and structure are closely bound... [Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 29 February 1984, Mark Swed]

Immediately after Archipelago, Reynolds returned to UC San Diego and embarked on a flute concerto with computer sound entitled Transfigured Wind. Writing about its premiere at Lincoln Center, Andrew Porter observed:

"Musical Events: Sound-Houses"

With computers, one can view musical gestures as if in slow motion. One can dissect and examine them both "horizontally," in time, separating attack - of breath upon mouth-piece, string upon bow - from the note that follows, and "vertically," in their timbre structures. One can then prolong, emphasize, transform, or remove any of the elements. The sounds that the music is made of, we have learned, are far more complicated than once was thought. There were sounds in the Reynolds piece - the soft sizzle of the player's breath seemed to be one - that have long been a part of music though not prominently heard. New sounds can in themselves be eloquent, and the discovery of new instruments and of new sounds is important. But what matters more is the use that composers make of them...Reynolds is at once an explorer and a visionary composer. whose works lead listeners to follow him into new regions of emotion and imagination. [The New Yorker, 9 July 1984]

The Angel of Death was written in collaboration with perceptual psychologists (principally Stephen McAdams) and became the subject of a special issue of the journal Music Perception.

This issue of Music Perception presents the results of an ambitious and unique interdisciplinary collaboration. The plan was to ask a well-known composer to work closely with a group of musicologists and psychologists. The composer would create a work that would be the subject of psychlogical experiments: Do listeners actually hear what the composer intended for them to hear...?

...

No small risk was involved on the part of the architects of this project... Reynolds expresses an urgent need for "a serious and broadly conceived examination of the relationship(s) between how composers make their music" and the actual experience that listeners report….The authors of the empirical papers in this issue have adapted, manipulated, and in some cases invented laboratory tools to do just this. [The Editors, Music Perception, Volume 22, No. 2, Winter 2004]

Particularly identified with the writing of Beckett, Borges, Ashbery, and Kundera, Reynolds has sometimes responded to texts with songs, as in the cycle last things, I think, to think about (1994), written collaboratively with poet John Ashbery.

Mr. Reynolds's last things is a 70-min song cycle consisting of ten of Mr. Ashbery's poems, all linked together by a spatialized recording of Mr. Ashbery himself reading an eleventh piece, a prose-poem, "Debit Night," which was, in fact, commissioned for this collaboration. The poet's reading of "Debit Night" begins the cycle and resurfaces at various times over the course of the work. The other ten songs are interspersed throughout the composition, continually interrupting the reading of "Debit Night."…

Last things is truly remarkable for its fusion of complex design with directness of expression. It is an extraordinary collaboration uniting the music and poetry of two of the leading American modernists of the late 20th century. [Computer Music Journal, Benjamin R. Levy, Volume 28, No. 2, Summer 2004]

But there have also been instrumental glosses, including Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward... (1989) for solo cello (responding to a poem of James Merrill's), and a series of multichannel electroacoustic compositions collectively entitled VOICESPACE. About the fourth of this series, Nicholas Kenyon wrote in The New Yorker that "The Palace is a powerfully atmospheric piece whose form is perfectly suited to the extraordinary visionary quality of Borges' poetry..."

The SHARESPACE series of duos for instrumentalist and computer musician began with Dream Mirror that features guitar. It...

...took material from [two previous] guitar works, transformed it and sent it out through speakers around the gallery. The effect was electrifying, as if the computer had become a sort of meta-guitar, revealing a hidden universe of ideas, dreams, possibilities and memories behind the original works. [Guitarist] Gomez's intimate, human-scale playing took on new depth and beauty against the otherworldly sounds [computer musician] Oliver was producing, and the result was a work of extraordinary lyricism: the lucid dreaming of a 21st-century poet. [Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post, 5 March 2011]

SHARESPACE I - V also includes MARKed MUSIC (contra bass), Shifting/Drifting (violin), Toward Another World: LAMENT (clarinet), and ACTIONS (piano). These works all feature algorithms designed by Reynolds, processes that allow malleable elaborations of selected elements plucked from the instrumentalist's performed materials, creating a "hall of mirrors" immersiveness.

The Music: Other Sources of Inspiration

Visual art provoked from Reynolds works as diverse as the 1991-92 Symphony[The Stages of Life] (inspired by self-portraits of Rembrandt and Picasso); Visions for string quartet, which responds to the startling range of Bruegel's imagination; and, later, another string quartet, Ariadne's Thread, concerned with the character of line itself, both as drawn and as sounding.

An incessant, insistent darkness throbs through the heart of [this quartet] capturing the neurotic and sublimated sexuality of the Ariadne myth in a strikingly original way. The result was a truly astonishing musical voyage. [The Strad, February 1997, London]

Other works, such as Submerged Memories (2006) continue this thread. Commissioned by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, it explores a text the composer edited from W. G. Sebald, whose novels hover deliriously between the quotidian and Kafkaesque improbabilities. It includes projected mosaics of pictorial fragments cut from works of Rembrandt and Leonardo DaVinci mentioned in Sebald's texts.

Myth emerged as a central concern in the second of Reynolds's three symphonies:

Reynolds is a composer who has remained strongly committed to the experimental spirit...Symphony[Myths] gave no specific message to the listener, rather one had to use one's imagination. The music, which accumulates an increasing level of activity throughout, makes a listener feel as though he is experiencing the same complicated, multidimensional object from three perspectives in turn. The process is filled with the joy of discovery. [Akimichi Takeda, The Mainichi Shinbun, 6 November 1990]

This mythic preoccupation expanded in The Red Act Project. The first of its works was commissioned by the BBC, and The Red Act Arias was premièred at the 1997 Proms Festival. With a text drawn from Aeschylus, it probes the deadly conflict between Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, using a narrator, choir and orchestra augmented by eight channels of computer processed and spatialized sound. Writing in The Sunday Times, Paul Driver called it "a kind of anthropological brooding; a secular oratorio in which the theme is the dark forces at the foundation of civilized society." Work towards a culminating opera proceeded then, with Justice, for soprano, actress, percussionist, and computer spatialization (commissioned by and staged for the Library of Congress' Bicentennial in the Great Hall of the Jefferson Building), and Illusion (for 2 singers, 2 actors, 3 instrumental soloists, and chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Los Angles Philharmonic and the KOussevitzky Foundation).

Robert Carl wrote in Fanfare, Issue 32:1, September/October 2008, about a Mode CD featuring two of Reynolds's symphonies and Whispers Out of Time:

All three works aspire to a sort of stately grandeur and mystery: great sweeping gestures occur, which we can't really anticipate nor explain, yet they are usually satisfying...At times the music seems frozen harmonically, yet there may be several layers of detailed and often fast activity occurring simultaneously. Indeed, the predominant rhythmic sense here I would call geological, with bands of sonic activity slipping and grating against one another like tectonic plates...overall, this is an excellent portrait of a composer of great imaginative, aesthetic ambition...There is a real mind, heart, and ear at work here.

A signature feature of the composer's involvement with technology is the gradual fulfillment of an early desire to confer an expressive reach upon the spatial aspects of musical sound (perhaps even to discover the roots of the empathic exclamation "I was moved."). Beginning as early as the notorious theater piece The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62), he introduced spatialization through antiphonies of live musicians. Subsequently, his work involved the simulation of auditory illusions using computers, as in Two Voices -- an allegory (1996), commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra. An earlier project, Watershed was the first Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD to feature music originally conceived for multi-channel presentation (Mode Records, 1998).

...the spatial element is integral to the conception of each piece and is not simply imposed as a final production effect. For ... Reynolds, this is expressed as a synergy between background (he holds degrees in both Engineering Physics and Music Composition), 30 years of experience working with spatialization issues, and the considering of each particular situation in light of a variety of tools. As in all art making, there is a kind of 'alchemy' going on wherein the totality of the composer's knowledge and experience boils down to produce a richly nuanced and authentic result. [Richard Zvonar, Surround Professional Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 1999]

In many of the spatial projects, architecture also played a role, for Reynolds has created numerous works expressly intended for buildings such as Kenzo Tange's Olympic Gymnasium in Tokyo, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, Arata Isozaki's Gran Ship (Shizuoka), The Royal Albert Hall, the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, I. M. Pei's East Wing of the National Gallery of Art and The Board of Officers Room of the renovated Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

Research -- Teaching -- Writings -- Awards

Roger Reynolds, Brian Ferneyhough and
John Cage in Warren Studio A, UCSD].
Bonnie Harkins, photographer. Roger Reynolds
Collection, Performing Arts Encyclopedia,
Library of Congress.

Reynolds's aesthetic outlook was jointly shaped by the American Experimental tradition (Ives, Varèse and Cage) and -- through his teachers Finney and Gerhard -- also by the Second Viennese School. His multi-continental career, in Europe, South America, Asia, and the Nordic countries, as well as in the United States, has included writing, lecturing, organizing musical events, and teaching. After living and working abroad for an extended period in the 60s, the Reynoldses settled into the life of Southern California, with their Del Mar home overlooking the Pacific at the stable center of their existence. They committed years of energy to the growth of the UCSD Department of Music while continuing their relations with international friends and colleagues.

Although Reynolds' entire academic career was spent in the fermentive and always challenging Music Department at UC San Diego, he accepted several visiting positions over the years at other institutions: the University of Illinois (resulting in his first book, Mind Models), Brooklyn College of the CUNY (where he wrote A Searcher's Path), Yale University, Amherst College, at which he composed the string orchestra set, Whispers Out of Time and finally Harvard University, where he served as Fromm Professor in 2012.

In addition to writing articles for periodicals including Perspectives of New Music, the Contemporary Music Review, Polyphone, American Music,Inharmoniques, MusikTexte, Nature, Leonardo, Nuove Musiche, Music Perception and The Musical Quarterly, Reynolds published four books; Mind Models: New Forms of Musical Experience (1975, revised 2005) is the earliest.

Not many people have anything worthwhile to say, and of those, very few have the ability to say it well. [Reynolds is] one of the fortunate few with both. [Conlon Nancarrow]

The 2002 Form and Method: Composing Music is a detailed treatment of his compositional approach published by Routledge, New York.

This book is the outcome of Roger Reynolds's residency at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, as Randolph Rothschild Guest Composer (1992-3). Reynolds (b. 1934) takes the opportunity to build on the foundations of his earlier, shorter monograph on compositional method, A Searcher's Path (1987), and has clearly thought long and hard….
…
In putting his own head above the parapet in the way he does here, and also in his studied avoidance of reference to other composers where matters of possible technical substance are concerned, Reynolds has underlined the personal specifics of his 'Rothschild' project. More such projects are needed, though they will have to work hard to match the positive, illuminating results…in this volume. [MUSIC & LETTERS, Arnold Whittall, Volume 84, Number 3, August 2003]

Reynolds has given master classes in settings such as Buenos Aires, Thessaloniki, Taipei, Porto Alegre, Paris (Ircam), Warsaw, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. They complement frequent North American residencies. Reynolds was also featured composer at numerous international festivals including Music Today and the Suntory International Program in Japan, the Edinburgh, Bath and Proms festivals, the Helsinki and Zagreb biennales, the Darmstadt Courses, New Music Concerts (Toronto), Warsaw Autumn, Why Note? (Dijon), Musica Viva (Munich), the Agora Festival (Paris), various ISCM festivals, and the New York Philharmonic's Horizons '84.

Whispers Out of Time

While Valentine Visiting Professor at Amherst
College in 1986, Reynolds came upon the extended
poem by John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror, a text concerned with the artist's relationship
to society and the influence of time. The poem
mentions Mahler, and this stimulated Reynolds
toward an atypical engagement with musical quotation
(Mahler and also Beethoven). Whispers' six
movements, each named with a phrase from the
poem, are scored for 23 strings (sections of violins,
violas, cellos, and basses, each with a soloist).

Reynolds received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize (1989) for the string orchestra composition Whispers Out of Time, inspired by Ashbery's poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

One can say that, just as Elliott Carter came from neoclassicism and became Europeanized, Reynolds became Europeanized from the direction of experimentalism, perhaps especially after his residencies at Ircam (Pierre Boulez's electronic music institute in Paris)….It is a telling detail of Reynolds's career that he became, in 1989, the first composer since Ives from an experimentalist background to win the normally conservative Pulitzer Prize for music. [Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century, Schirmer Books, 1998]

Reynolds, honored by the National Institute of Arts and Letters,the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of California, San Diego's Revelle Medal, also has received commissions from, among others, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Koussevitzky, Fromm, Ford, and Suntory Hall foundations, the BBC Proms, the Los Angeles and Philadelphia orchestras, the British Arts Council, Radio France, French Ministry of Culture and Ircam. His works are recorded on New World, Disques Montaigne, Neuma, Pogus, Mode, Gramavision, Wergo, Lovely, CRI, GM, and Bridge compact discs. Reynolds is represented by Broadcast Music, Incorporated, and his compositions are published in printed editions exclusively by C.F. Peters Corporation.

Documentation -- Multimedia -- Performing

In 1998, the Library of Congress established the Roger Reynolds Special Collection, and, in 2015, the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel Switzerland initiated its Fonds Roger Reynolds. Several double-disc collections of his music have been issued, including the Mode Records releases Epigram and Evolution, the Complete Piano Music and the Complete Cello Works: ROGER REYNOLDS.

Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward...(1989), remains fresh-minted but also thrillingly open-ended - a structure that is always bigger than your attempts to contain it... Reynolds remains forever disarming. What other composer could have arrived at a score like Thoughts, Places, Dreams, for cello and chamber orchestra (2013), where textures are flicked on and off - as if the piece were a continuum but with layers that are being constantly dimmed or snuffed out altogether...we never quite see the whole. Reynolds plants seeds in our memory, challenging us to apply our memories of what we think we heard earlier, or might have heard, against the music we're now hearing - which itself has already evaporated into the air. [Philip Clarke, Gramophone]

Another double-CD, Aspiration, includes all of the works for violin which Reynolds has so far composed for Irvine Arditti.

This demanding but thoroughly rewarding two-disc set serves as the chronicle of a friendship, one that's both musical and personal, between senior US composer Roger Reynolds and UK violinist Irvine Arditti...Best of the bunch, however, is "Shifting/Drifting," a duet for Arditti and Paul Hembree on live computer processing, who manipulates the player's sounds while also mixing in original material. At times, Arditti plays against an orchestra of himself; at others, he weaves around a ghostly sonic doppelgänger. This is music that demands close attention, but repays it with startlingly abundant invention, delivered with cool authority and captured in close, generous sound. [David Kettle, The Strad, 20 December 2018]

During 2015, Reynolds collaborated intensively
with longtime friend and colleague,
English violinist, Irvine Arditti.
Exchanging dozens of emails, conferring
in trans-continental Skype sessions,
and during several in-person meetings,
they refined two brief studies, the
complementary imagE/violin and
imAge/violin which then became the
material elaborated in the more ambitious
architecture, SHARESPACE IV: Shifting/Drifting,
a duo for violin and the computer musician
Paul Hembree, whose computer programming
expertise formed the third portion of the
collaboration. Such shared projects become
a feature of Reynolds's work in the second
decade of the 21st century.

The thread of theatrical and multimedial works beginning with The Emperor of Ice Cream (1962-3), continued with Justice (1999-2001) and Ilusion (2006-06). More recently, Reynolds created george WASHINGTON on a text drawn from the diaries and letters of the first American President. It is set for three narrators, symphony orchestra, multichannel electroacoustic sound and a massive triptych of projected imagery enveloping the orchestra.

Growing out of this project, Reynolds and his collaborators determined to undertake a smaller scale work that could more easily move from one venue to another. FLiGHT involves string quartet, a quartet of actors, a novel set, projected imagery, and 8-channel computer processed sound.

At that initial moment of liftoff on an airplane, as gravity temporarily becomes a memory, there's a sensation of being suspended. That feeling, coupled with slight disorientation, is what composer Roger Reynolds accomplishes in FLiGHT, heard on Monday night in its premiere by the JACK Quartet in the Park Avenue Armory's Board of Officers Room, an ideal spot for chamber music. … The technical requirements of the 80-minute piece are impressive: paper covered sides of some two dozen lightweight cubes serve as screens, onto which are projected designer Ross Karre's images of gleaming airplanes, black and white news footage of Amelia Earhart and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, biplanes from the Wright brothers, craters of the moon and Mars, and footage of birds slicing through the clouds... Most of the time, the unexpected juxtapositions of words, music, and visuals had a dreamlike affect, the mind was pleasantly awash in free association. One 20ish man said later, "It was more unexpected than I expected." ... The best solution was to simply sit back with Reynolds at the controls, letting his airborne fantasy race through the mind.[Bruce Hodges, MusicalAmerica.com, 3 November 2016]

In 2010, Reynolds began a continuing series of intermedial lecture performances under the title Passage, drawing from a collection of texts that he authored. A unique assemblage of ideas, images and live performance elements are presented so that both in-the-moment and pre-recorded readings can be choreographically spatialized, allowing lines of thought to intersect and diverge around the listener. In contrast, the Passage book intermingles images and texts in such a way as to parallel the multiplicity of implication present in the parallel live, illustrated lectures. [Passage, Edition Peters 2017]

Steven Schick proposed in 2017 that Reynolds compose an extended work for "speaking percussionist." Here and There evolved from their collaboration. Samuel Beckett's Texts for Nothing IX portrays a figure hoping to find "a way out, somewhere." The soloist is asked to act in three modalities: delivering the text through unusual vocalizations, performing solely as a percussionist, and closely blending text delivery with percussion sounds. The process involved a collaboration during which percussionist Schick urged Reynolds to follow his imaginings rather than to limit in any way the nature of the work.

A page from the score for Here and There.
This is the first of five "Arias," involving
continuous and subtle integration of the
performer's voice with various specified
percussion instruments.

Percussionist Steven Schick with Reynolds
in UC San Diego's Conrad Prebys Music Center's
Experimental Theater during rehearsals for the
premiere of their collaboration, Here and There.