ROBERT MUCZYNSKI

posted by James Reel

While I was vacationing in Romania (about which more later, once I catch up with everything that didn't get done while I was away), retired University of Arizona composition professor Robert Muczynski passed away. He wrote music that I not only admired, but enjoyed, and it circulated easily around this country and across the Atlantic. Bob was always miffed that he didn't get the local attention he thought he deserved, but at least his works have become increasingly easy to hear via CD. My Fanfare colleague Walter Simmons, a longtime Muczynski advocate, wrote this fine tribute.