George Winston on Why His Music and Life Are Keyed to the Seasons

Ray: So you interpret everything through the model of the seasons? George: Everything. Not just music, but also everything else. Like if I was thinking of the Andromeda galaxy, I’d still think of a season. Ray: Would it be winter? George: God, I don’t know. Outer space is probably winter, you know, almost absolute zero,…

George Winston on the Seasons

Ray: Why are the seasons so important to you? George: Growing up in eastern Montana, there were four different ways of living. That’s just what I’m rooted in, that there are four ways to think of something. The four ways of living there were so different from each other. The whole fall was getting…