Happy birthday, Robert Moran, the only composer who’s had the wisdom to repeatedly top off my wine glass with chilled vodka in the middle of recording an interview at his home. Keep on flying high (over Albania)!

An aria from Bob’s opera “Desert of Roses”

Selections from “Trinity Requiem”

“Alice” for Scottish Ballet

Looking groovy and introducing his “Lunchbag Opera” for the BBC

“Buddha Goes to Bayreuth”

“Modern Love Waltz” by Philip Glass, arranged by Robert Moran for accordion and cello

“Waltz. In Memoriam Maurice Ravel”