George heussenstamm biography

George Heussenstamm (July 24, – April 8, ) was an American composer..

Composer / Author George Heussenstamm

A Conversation with Bruce Duffie

George Heussenstamm is one of several West-Coast composers that I have had the pleasure of including in my series of interviews. Neither ‘Uptown’ nor ‘Downtown’, as the New York groups are often called, they have always kept to a very different kind of sound. Recordings of their music are often presented with several of their members, and it was fairly easy for me to elicit contact information for others from each of them.

By setting up my programming to celebrate round-birthdays, I was relieved of the task of deciding whom to place where in the available time-slots. This gimmick was completely color-blind and gender-blind. When you had that special birthday you got a program. Simple as that. With that in mind, I often worked far enough ahead to anticipate upcoming events, and