abstract:John O'Reilly (November 25, 1940 –) is a modern-day composer and author of several successful concert band theory books. He has received numerous ASCAP awards, studied composition with Robert Washburn, Arthur Frackenpohl, Charles Walton and Donald Hunsberger.
That same afternoon, Yang showed up--as promised--at a Web conference in San Francisco where he went through a gut-wrenching on-stage interview with John Battelle, who co-hosted the Web 2.0 conference with Tim O'Reilly.