In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

Author: Olivia Barney “I am a cheerful Christian; but not because life is easy, or because I feel the constant guidance of my Savior. Instead, I am cheerful because, with Christ, I’m enough.”Olivia Ruth Barney spent over a decade of her childhood fighting her health. Through chronic pain and digestive issues that left her unable to eat for days at a time, she felt abandoned by God. But one day, she realized that maybe she was the one to abandon Him. While her team of doctors focused on man...