There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

Quote by William Bolcom

As a soloist Bolcom has recorded his own compositions as well as music by Gershwin and Milhaud (Johnson 2001). A. Paul Minnesota in April 2007.

Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.