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 .
