| Influences | "JS Bach, Duke Ellington, Melville, Mozart (particularly concertos and chamber music), John Philip Sousa, Charles Ives, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Whitman, Kayan Kalhor (Persian kamchei virtuoso), Cervantes (en español), Copland, Ali Akbar Khan, Benny Goodman, Conlon Nancarrow, Mahler, Shakespeare (particularly Lear), Thomas Mann, Beethoven (particularly piano music), Stockhausen tape music, Schoenberg (strange but true), Beatles, Qawwali music (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), Louis Armstrong, Paul Butterfield, Debussy/Ravel, Frank Gehry, Wagner (but not Parsifal), Allen Ginsberg, Glass/Reich/Riley."
"Recently, I have been listening to Alarm Will Sound arrangements of Aphex Twin, old LP recordings of the Benny Goodman Orchestra from the late 1930's, and the new edit of "The Dharma at Big Sur", my concerto for electric violin, played by the amazing Tracy Silverman. I recently conducted scenes from Glass's Akhnaten with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and found that I liked it." - JA
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