Early years in North Carolina and Virginia; piano studies; studies at Harvard, 1942-1944; working with Vilzak-Schollar Ballet School and Balanchine's School of American Ballet; moving to California to work with composers Ben Johnston and Harry Partch, 1951; performing at the hungry i, Opus One, and The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco's North Beach in the 1950s, 60s, 70s; founding and directing Pocket Opera, 1977-present; reflections on piano studies and performance, opera repertoire, staging, translation, administration, reviewing press.