What other jobs might you be interested in if you weren't so busy writing music?

Michael Daugherty
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Michael Daugherty Photo courtesy 21st Century Music Management

f I was not a composer I would either run a used book store or be a lounge cocktail pianist. I have always loved the smell of old books and enjoyed rummaging through the stacks never knowing what I might come across.

For years I was a lounge pianist and enjoyed playing all over the globe during my student years. One meets many interesting and strange people at the gigs. My most unmemorable lounge gig: Ramada Inn, New Jersey Turnpike, Exit One.

[Ed. Note: Evelyn Glennie will join the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin for five performances of Michael Daugherty's UFO Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall between May 17-23, 2000.]

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