From 2009:
Read the whole thing here.When I told Paul Moravec three years ago that I’d love to collaborate with him on an opera, it didn’t occur to me that The Letter would open in the same year that Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong would be published. I’m sure I would have said yes anyway–it was an offer I couldn’t refuse–but I might have thought twice, and maybe even thrice, if I’d known exactly what I was getting into….