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 ...
Its time for a crowd interview again because, well, I just decided that it is. This interview’s question: What are your musical resolutions for 2013? As always, be funny, be serious, be sarcastic, but please be truthful and let us know what’s ...
Since I stopped writing for About.com I haven’t been listening to as many new releases, so instead of trying to pick ten for a year-end list, I thought I’d just pick out a few things that I discovered this year, whether they were new or not, and tell all ...
The New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2013 Artist Fellowship application is now open. This is a prestigious award that gives winning artists $7,000 in unrestricted funds to “support the artist’s vision or voice regardless of the level of ...
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 ...
Yes, this is a picture of the famous Surprised Kitty from youtube. I’ve put it into this post because I decided not to use the second movement that I wrote about in my last post. Unlike the kitty, I’m not really too surprised by this. It is a ...
Yes folks, I feel that I’ve made a breakthrough of sorts. After writing several versions of a second movement, I finally finished one of them and feel very good that it moves the piece in a good direction. At this point I’ve settled more or ...