William Bolcom

Studio 360

Plenty of classical composers like to borrow a snippet from pop music, or throw in a little reference to a well-known song in a piece of “serious music.” William Bolcom prefers to go whole hog. WNYC’s Sara Fishko talked to Bolcom for our series on living composers and their relationships with other musicians.

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