Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: An Inauspicious Beginning; Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Polyphonic Life; 1 Libby Larsen and the Cultural Moment; 2 Larsen and Family: Needing to Be Heard; 3 Larsen and Religion: The Tie That Binds; 4 Larsen and Nature: Tutoring the Soul; 5 Larsen and the Academy Years: "My Soul Was Shaking"; 6 Larsen and Gender: Doing the Impossible; 7 Larsen and Technology: Challenging the Concert Hall; 8 Larsen and the Collaborators, Larsen and the Critics; Conclusions: Reflections on a Life and the Process of Telling It; Notes; Bibliography; Index