"I was surprised anyone would run an op-ed piece based on one employee," he said.
I know the New York Times is always looking for a trend piece based on one person's anecdotal experience.
Shankar also composed two solo sitar pieces one based on the raga Desh (traditionally associated with rain), and one sombre piece based on the raga Todi.
They then made a new piece based on that.
The piece, based on two African folk tales, tells about the friendships among several animals.
I am therefore currently putting together a sound piece based on my recordings from Entoto Mariam.
But a piece based on Mahler's First Symphony on "Toys" portended his large-scale classical reworkings.
He performed naked during much of Transatlantic, a frank and funny piece based on his experience in New York.
That piece, based on a Caprice by Paganini, was commissioned by Herbert Axelrod, an author of a Liszt biography.
(2005), a Scott Wheeler piece based on three sections of the William Maxwell book "So Long, See You Tomorrow".
When Harry Shearer and I joined Saturday Night Live, we decided to write a piece based on that.
