Behrman

Along with younger musicians who have avidly and brilliantly taken up Wolff’s music, the marathon included older Wolff colleagues, such as composer David Behrman, who performed on a laptop an incandescent electronic piece, “CW90,” written for the occasion.

It was also a social nexus for boundary-pushing musicians and composers like John Cage, Arthur Russell, David Behrman and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Behrman said that REI has also been unsuccessful in working with its landlord to address safety issues at the store and implementing other improvements.

“I felt like I was the only Jew in high school,” he said in an interview with the publisher Behrman House.

When I told Ms. Behrman I was anxious about a novel that I had started writing, but kept putting off, she spritzed me with a homemade “inspiration mist” and told me to use it whenever I hit a wall.