Reprinted with the permission of Judy Dunaway. All rights reserved.
(The following paper was presented at the Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung in Darmstadt, Germany on April 9, 2001. Since then, many of the …

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D.C. Culbertson over the yearsFinal photo by Mark Longaker, others unknown

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