"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

At the beginning of the fourth cut on the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's one and only fiddle album titled "Mountain Fiddler," he starts off the fiddle tune "Cripple Creek" by doing a recitation. In the ...