December 31, 1962

"Starting a piece is the worst, and that can stretch from one day to three weeks of agony. The cats run and hide."

Thus speaks Jennifer Higdon, (December 31, 1962) a Pulitzer Prize winning composer. We gather this picture was not taking during such creative agonies.





Regarding her path to music she says

'“Kind of incredible, isn’t it?”... She has won a Pulitzer and a Grammy, her orchestral work blue cathedral has been performed more than 500 times, she is professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music, and is one of the world’s most-performed living classical composers. But when she arrived at college, she hadn’t heard of Igor Stravinsky. “I knew nothing,” she said.'

Beau is the yellow kitty. I don't know the name of the gray darling getting nose time.