What this site is not about – A while ago, I was talking to someone I hadn’t seen in years, and they said, “We thought you had dropped off the edge of the earth!” Well, in a sense I had, and felt guilty about not keeping in touch better. Also for fathering some music in the meanwhile which I did nothing to promote, relying on good fortune more then anything. So I had a box full of stuff orphaned away, whispering to me once in a while “Bruce! – Legacy!!” “Come on!”
I also had a pocketful of huge good luck along the way. In fact, Serendipity has been the groundwork of my life – for which I give thanks daily.
In the late ‘70s I left the new music scene in Vancouver and more or less dropped out of sight for a few years. Read More…
After a time of going where the wind blew me and living in my own oyster, I drifted ashore and became a husband and father, surfacing for a while at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson and later in Stratford with my wife, actor Janet Wright & family. Janet passed away in 2006 and Rachel, our daughter, heroically, in 2004. Like everyone else, my life has been a mix of loss and gain, but somehow I’ve had a lucky star to help when help was needed.
I think that’s the charmed part. But I haven’t kept in touch, and have been regretting it. Most of the music I wrote has been filed away, so for what it’s worth, this website is a kind of long lost greeting card to past friends and colleagues, saying I’m alive and well and living in Victoria. I share this lively city with my sister Natasha and the rest of Janet’s tribe, and volunteer a couple times a week.
As Bruce Mather used to say to me in his most passionate French after every composition tutorial: “Courage!” I guess that’s what this website is about in a way: remembering him and Murray Schafer and everyone else, without whom I would still be wandering…