stucky

Our music community is so wide, and yet we’re all connected in these myriad, unexpected ways. Part of me also expects everyone to just be around indefinitely, ready to bounce back an email or grab a coffee. A year ago almost to the week I met Steve Stucky for breakfast, not to talk about his Pulitzer Prize winning music or the major piece he was mounting in a couple months with Jeremy Denk, but rather to talk about one of his own teachers, the late Robert Palmer, and my interest in *his* obscure music and life. It was a small but deeply meaningful gesture that he met with me, and speaks to a generosity of spirit we should all aspire to. When I first glanced his picture this morning, without reading the text beneath I’d assumed he had won yet another prestigious award. For that split second I thought, “Yeah, I need to write him.”