Even when the art we make is sacred, we artists are still just regular people. And we have been for generations. In anticipation of our concert at the Rubin Museum on January 17th, I took a guided tour of its collection last September. I was struck by the ...
The word premiere of Sidney Marquez Boquiren’s Pax vobiscum on our concert tonight at the San Francisco Center for New Music makes this a special landmark for the group. This is the first piece that we’ve commissioned for the group since the early days of ...
The castles of sound that we musicians build always fade away at the end of the concert, but at least we don’t have to worry about them crashing down in the wind. The thousands of tons of twisting and bucking metal of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in its ...
Peter Monaghan offered a beautiful preview of our February 1 performance at Cornish College: Among successful mergers (of jazz and chamber music), we can now count the AnyWhen Ensemble, a quintet that Douglas Detrick brought together to perform his finely ...
After our recent tour and the release of Rivers Music, the AnyWhen Ensemble has received some good press in the web and print media.
We recorded the first installment of what will become a series of EP recordings by the AnyWhen Ensemble, beginning with “Rivers Music”. Check the last entry in this blog for more about the piece. The series will include several short recordings of many ...
My chamber-jazz ensemble, Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, will be embarking on a special group of performances in New York City and in Portland, Salem and Eugene, Oregon. We’re very excited to be making our New York City debut at avant-garde music ...
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 ...