In 1980 I startedt a publishing company to publish some of the compositions of my parents and also some of my songs.

My mother, Ida Bostelmann (1894-1979), was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and had 140 published compositions, most of them piano pieces I am combining into three volumes according to their technique demands. She also wrote a number of art songs, published and unpublished, which are being compiled into a volume.

My father, Scribner Cobb (1907-1951), studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg in Switzerland and was Head of the Theory Department at the New York City High School of Music and Art for eight years. A graduate of Amherst College, where he majored in philosophy, he was a conductor and played every instrument in the orchestra.

He left a few published instrumental ensembles as well as an unpublished symphony, a flute suite, a 'cello sonata and a series of band pieces. Several of his orchestral works were performed by Howard Hanson, Eugene Ormandy, Erno Rapee and others. He was also a fine poet, studying with Robert Frost at Amherst College for several years. I plan to publish a book of his poetry soon. A heavy smoker, he died at the age of 43 of Hodgkins Disease.

In l982 I met Terence Dolph, an accomplished violinist who also plays his collection of bronze tams and gongs. That year I published Gongstream, followed by Gongstream II, and then Gongs for Meditation. In 2003 I published The Voices of Bronze, which is digitally recorded and available on CD. The fist three audio cassettes are out of print, but there are a few which can be ordered for $7.00 each.

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and musician who lived in the 6th century B.C.E. He is widely known throughout the world for his geometric theorem about the sum of the squares on the two legs of a right triangle being equal to the squares on the hypotenuse.

The father of Western music, constructing various scales on the basis of harmonics, he believed that music is the most powerful force in the universe, and he ascribed different tones to the planets he could see. The most recent development in physics, known as The String Theory, postulates that all space and matter is made up of infinitesimal, vibrating strings. As sound is vibration, Pythagoras was way ahead of his time! His Music of the Spheres may well be similar to the Cosmic Symphony described by Brian Greene in his book, The Elegant Universe (W.W. Norton & Co. 1999).

A native of Samos, Pythagoras traveled widely in the Mediterranean and is reported to have attended a Mystery School in Alexandria. About 529 B.C.E., he migrated to Crouton, a Dorian colony in Southern Italy. There he became the center of a widespread organization which included a school, a religious brotherhood, and an association for the moral reformation of society.

Both his mother and his wife took an active part in his work. About 510 there was a political uprising against him and he fled to Metapontium, where he remained until his death about ten years later. However his followers continued to teach in Magna Graecia (Italy) until about the middle of the 4th century B.C.E.

The teachings of Pythagoras strongly influenced both Plato and Aristotle, as well as many musicians, mathematicians, philosophers and scientists up to the present time. Pythagoras believed music could transform, heal, and bring peace to inner and outer conflicts. He often played his flute in the marketplace to stop fights.

I am indebted to my father for telling my brother and me about Pythagoras and other Greek heroes as bedtime stories. Pythagoras Press endeavors to maintain the ideals of its namesake and publish music to promote peace, health, beauty and truth.

On September 5th, 2003, Pythagoras Press introduced it's new product line of digitally recorded music on compact disk with the publication of a new CD, The Voices of Bronze, by T Dolph (formerly Terence Dolph). Subtitled Bronze Tams of the Eastern Opera Orchestra, it explores the lyrical quality of these unusual instruments and is excellent relaxation music for massage, Tai Chi, yoga, and meditation.

A native of San Jose, California, Terence now lives in Northern California and both sings and plays his violin with local ensembles. For 20 years he lived on the Monterey Peninsula. Although Terence considers himself, first of all, a singer and composer, his education includes 40 years of classical violin study. Terence has performed frequently on the Central Coast of California in concert, at various churches and conventions, and at the Whole Life Expos in San Jose and Los Angeles.

In 1982 Terence began recording his Eastern Opera Orchestra, consisting of bronze tam-tams, gongs, cymbals and woodblock from Wuhan, China. As Terence explains, "My concept of these bronze tams is tied to my violin playing in the sense that I'm looking for lyrical expression. My main purpose in playing them is to explore the world of rich harmony and sonority."