December 15th, 2017 Media, Pennsylvania, USA Fabio Álvarez (FA): When did you start composing? George Crumb (GC): I think I was about nine or ten years old. Needless to say, these early efforts were of no consequence whatsoever! My father was a clarinetist, my mother a cellist, and my brother a flutist. So I wrote little pieces for these instruments (with myself at the piano!). My most valuable education from my early years came from my father´s collection of miniature Eulenb