John von Daler

I was born in Oklahoma where I played my violin and learned to value a summer evening, a bicycle to ride on, a quiet street and a freshly mowed lawn.

My teenage years I played the violin and the piano in Connecticut in the woods dark with hidden symbols, while New York lurked in the shadows.

My college years in Princeton, gothic and green, were as quiet as an unexpressed thought. Playing nothing, I just read and learned.

I spent the rest of this much of my life in Denmark, playing and teaching, composing and writing, learning mildness, the love of sea water and how to sleep under the midnight sun.