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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble is the proud recipient of a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation! The grant includes a commission for a new, large-scale work for the AnyWhen Ensemble, ...