In his youth , Chou Wen-chung , the 91-year-old subject of a Composer Portrait at the Columbia University Miller Theater on Thursday , had many strict teachers . One was Edgard Var è se , the temperamental French-born Modernist and godfather of electronic music , who once showed his displeasure by throwing a score of Mr. Chou ’ s on the floor and ordering him to urinate on it .

星期四，91岁的作曲家周文中将成为哥伦比亚大学米勒剧场作曲家的画像演出的主题。他年轻时有过很多位严师，其中一位便是埃德加·瓦雷兹（EdgardVarèse），这位喜怒无常的法国现代主义作曲家和电子音乐教父发火时曾把周的乐谱扔在地上，让他自己往上面小便。