New Site Launched
Posted on Jul 9, 2010
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If you’re reading this via an RSS feed, I invite you to come and have a look at my newly designed site. There are countless improvements, but mainly I’ve made it easier to find information on my pieces and my teaching activities. Among the bells and whistles is a very nifty embedded perusal score for most of the pieces listed under Selected...
Read MoreCity Walks at SFO “You Are Hear” Festival
Posted on Jun 25, 2010
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Filed under: magik*magik, Performance, string quartet, Video
Some composer friends and I have been kicking around the idea of getting our music played in unconventional venues. The idea is that if music is only played in concert halls, then the audience is limited to people who take time out of their busy schedules to seek it out, to say nothing of willingness to spend money on tickets. Surely we can find new ways of...
Read MoreProject Encore: Choral Works Awaiting Second Performances
Posted on Mar 16, 2010
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Filed under: Choral, Cycle of Friends
Last year the New York chorus Schola Cantorum on Hudson initiated their Project Encore™ initiative, an effort to promote second performances of choral works that have received premiere performances and nothing since. It is a great and much needed idea: a juried central repository complete with instrumentation, text, program notes and even audio excerpts...
Read MoreJoseph Castaldo’s “Ancient Liturgy” Revisited in Philadelphia
Posted on Mar 5, 2010
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Filed under: Choral, Joseph Castaldo, Other People\'s Music, Philadelphia, Seán Deibler, Teachers, Video
This month the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, my choral alma mater, will present a concert that epitomizes the kind of music making that went on in Philadelphia when I was a student there in the 1980′s. The occasion is the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Joseph Castaldo’s extraordinary work for narrator, chorus and orchestra Ancient...
Read MoreWhat Is Musicianship?
Posted on Dec 4, 2009
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Filed under: ear training, Kodály, Musicianship, Solfège, Teaching
Anyone who has studied music at a conservatory or college level has taken an ear training class typically called “Musicianship.” This is where we train our ears to recognize intervals and chord qualities, learn how to perform melodies and rhythms accurately at sight and practice writing down musical examples upon hearing them. I wonder if, bogged...
Read MoreBerlin, 1989.
Posted on Nov 9, 2009
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Filed under: 1989, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Germany
Long story as to how and why, but within a few days of the Berlin Wall opening on November 9th, 1989, I was on an overnight train from Budapest to Berlin to check out the scene. Then I was removed from the train in the middle of the night at the Hungarian/(then) Czechoslovak border. The Velvet Revolution in Prague wasn’t scheduled to happen for another...
Read MoreJohn Adams Now Blogs
Posted on Oct 30, 2009
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Filed under: Other Blogs and Stuff
John Adams’ newly remodeled web site now includes a blog. Am I the last person to realize this? Posting has been consistent for the past week or so. The name “Hell Mouth” promises a lot. I hope he’ll have time to stick with it. Interestingly, he has enabled comments. Brave, brave man.
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