Composers absorb creative inspiration from every source they can discover.
For Robert Capanna, executive director of Settlement Music School since 1982, inspiration walks in by the hundreds every day, a constant stream of students from all ages whose lives are altered positively by music. No. 6 by the Jerusalem Quartet in Israel. I'm fortunate to have both Randall Scarlata, a superb musician and great communicator, and the Colorado Quartet. They played my First String Quartet three years ago, and I knew their level of musicianship - bright, committed musicians with no surface playing. When I spend any period of time, a week or two without writing, I start to feel bad, emotionally and physically.