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 ...
When I began composing the music that eventually became The Bright and Rushing World for AnyWhen Ensemble, I began a blogging project called the Diary of a Composer to give myself the opportunity think out loud about the piece as it was taking shape. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Today I did not write many notes. A lot of other business concerns came up this week that found me editing a recording from AnyWhen Ensemble’s Awake, Awake recording session to submit to a contest, taking care of some booking inquiries and other ...
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, ...
Happy November. Instead of going to the piano today, I went straight to the coffee. After that I went to the piano. Then I started making pencil marks on my paper. I remember I told you about the big paper that I accidentally ordered from the internet, or ...
Instead of going for the trumpet today, I went straight to the piano. As I was saying before, I’m working on a piece that is all tied together with a single theme. This can be a tough thing to do as it requires a discipline over a long period of ...