Like the nutritious breakfasts that we learned about when we were kids, grants are only a part of “this complete breakfast.” Like the Captain Crunch that I so loved as a kid, (with Crunch Berries!) grants are a rare treat for most artists. This is for a ...
Most grant and fellowship applications, in fact, almost every gateway to professional opportunity for artists, require a concise, but clear and compelling statement to help introduce the decision-makers on the panel to your work. Unfortunately, this is ...
This post first appeared on the Lawrence University Composition Blog. Professor Joanne Metcalf asked me to write a bit about this piece and about my life since graduating from Lawrence in 2006. The wonderful NOW Ensemble will perform a work I composed for ...
One of the things that I wanted to share in this series was the interaction of my life with my work, including my job(s), my personal relationships (as much as I care to share, which is usually not too much.) and my progress on the work as it relates to ...
The Comeback Kid was a made-for-TV film from 1980 directed by Peter Levin starring John Ritter, of Three’s Company fame. The IMDB synopsis of the film is as follows: “A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest for life ...
You said I should have an opinion and then you stopped saying anything so I picked one and wrote it on my pillow and I slept and I dreamed you had a face like a fish and wings and you had a tail like a snake’s whole body is a tail and I had a jar full of ...
I’m back from a really refreshing trip to Oregon where, incidentally, I got married. This isn’t a blog about me so much as it is about the music, so I won’t really go into it, though there is a lot I could say. It was a beautiful, ...
Began actually working on this piece in earnest, after thinking about it for several months. I decided to start improvising with some themes and played trumpet for about an hour, sometimes going to the piano and sometimes opening the refrigerator and ...
The results are in. Your intrepid blogger is, unfortunately, quite behind schedule with this post, but I got many fantastic responses and I’m very pleased to finally put them up here. The responses range from the sarcastic to the sublime, and this ...
I wanted to take some time to write about the suite of new music for the AnyWhen Ensemble that we’ll be premiering in New York City at The Stone and in Oregon performances in Salem, Eugene and Portland. (Check the preceding blog entry for details.) In ...