“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”
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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
