In 1974, Jim Casola shows up at for an audition-- and he stunned us with his amazing voice -- and we started on a amazing collaboration -- which included surrealistic-neo-classic-off the wall science fiction-esque-- and funny lyrics by Dan Dern. At the time, I was attending Brandeis and we had a concert hall surrounded by Steinway pianos, new

In 1974, Jim Casola shows up at for an audition-- and he stunned us with his amazing voice -- and we started on a amazing collaboration -- which included surrealistic-neo-classic-off the wall science fiction-esque-- and funny lyrics by Dan Dern. At the time, I was attending Brandeis and we had a concert hall surrounded by Steinway pianos, new electronic devices, and a gang from friends who pushed us to create new works -- This will be volume 1, followed by another collection of 'art songs' -- poetry set to music. The link is to one of the all time classics from volume II: