Update from NPAC

Posted on Jun 13, 2008 | 0 comments
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Update from NPAC

Stimulating, exhausting, fun, exhausting, interesting, exhausting. Useful? Maybe. (Did I mention exhausting?) I’m in the middle of the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, along with thousands of others from every imaginable performing arts discipline. Here are some highlights in stream-of-consciousness order. Music in a Meeting At the...

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Erling Wold's MORDAKE

Posted on May 24, 2008 | 0 comments
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My congratulations to San Francisco composer colleague Erling Wold on the premiere of his new opera Mordake. This is not a review, and so I’ll stop short of providing a lot of detail. Mordake is a very beautiful work, both musically and visually, performed most courageously by the amazing John Duykers. It’s very difficult to describe, so I’ll...

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National Performing Arts Convention Coming Up

Posted on May 21, 2008 | 0 comments
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As you may or may not already know, the National Performing Arts Convention takes place next month in Denver. It is a major event for anyone professionally involved in music, theater or dance. As someone with an interest in opera, theater, orchestral and choral music, I am looking forward to attending this for the first time. I’ll probably be spending...

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Judging Student Composers

Posted on May 11, 2008 | 2 comments
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This evening I had the thoroughly enjoyable experience of sitting on a panel of judges for a competition at the San Francisco Conservatory. These opportunities to judge come up from time to time, and I’m always glad to do it, not just to help the parties involved, but because it forces me to really listen and to think critically, knowing there’s a...

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More BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE

Posted on Apr 21, 2008 | 1 comment
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In the course of researching (read: obsessing over) Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle, I came across a Hungarian film adaptation of the piece on YouTube. It’s annoyingly divided into fourteen segments, but anyone familiar with the piece or interested should take a look. Here’s the segment containing my favorite part, known to...

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Berkeley BLUEBEARD

Posted on Apr 20, 2008 | 0 comments
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I’d like to alert Bay Area readers to the upcoming performances by Berkeley Opera of my two favorite one-acts, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. These two composers are not particularly known for their dramatic works, but each work reveals the composer’s complete mastery of music for the...

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Theremin Player

Posted on Apr 15, 2008 | 2 comments
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Well, I haven’t had much to blog about for a while, so just to keep this thing alive, here’s a kitty playing a theremin. Enjoy. Real blogging to return...

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