Hello, My name is Burton. People usually call me Burt. I'm a writer and composer of classical music. I lived in Japan for many, many years where I taught English in a university. For the first five years I lived with a Japanese family. It was there I learned the language and its history.

My vivacious, widowed Japanese mother –whom I later wrote a novel about- had been a middle school history teacher. After dinner it was she and I who enacted scenes of ancient Japanese heroes, the lives of famous samurai with a broom as a sword and, above all, the antics of Ninja, our faces covered with a tea towel, jumping from one room to the other...all to the amusement of my Japanese brothers.

In 1983, thirty of my compositions were played at a concert in Tokyo’s Bunkakaikan Hall. In the years following, my compositions were performed live on the radio by the Japanese Broadcasting Company and by various soloists in their recitals.

Please enjoy the snippets of a few of my compositions. Burt.