In 1980 I decided to start a publishing company in order to publish some of the compositions of my parents.

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 She also wrote a number of art songs, published and unpublished, which are being compiled into a volume.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 with Arnold Schonberg 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He left a few published instrumental ensembles as well as an unpublished symphony, a flute suite, a 'cello sonata and a series of band pieces.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. A volume of his poetry will be published soon. A heavy smoker, he died at the age of 43 of Hodgkins Disease.

In l982 I met Terence Dolph and soon published Gongstream, followed by Gongstream 11, 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.

Next will be a CD entitled Sleep, Baby, Sleep, which is currently being recorded. Several babies have benefitted from the demo cassette, and one mother told me her baby won't go to sleep without it, especially in the middle of the night! It also helps parents to sleep and soothes frazzled nerves.

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.