your question:

07/31/2023 Tyler

I've been a nosy bastard lately.
Does "Success in Life" from 12-17-1992 have any meaning to either You, Heifetz or Patton?
If so, would you mind elaborating?

my answer:

The Kronos Quartet commissioned Mr Bungle to write music for them and that was the title of the piece (or collection of pieces, I should say). The title comes from TV evangelist Robert Tilton’s show that we were obsessed with and much of the music was aimed at representing his demeanor and personality. The piece itself was a bit of an over-cooked disaster. Too long and overwrought. Kronos recognized the composer quality in our band, but that didn’t really translate to us writing for another ensemble. There was one, truncated performance at the Artaud Theater in San Francisco that mostly fell on deaf ears.