Four Sidestreets

Posted on Sep 8, 2008 | 1 comment
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When in doubt, haul out the juvenilia… In the course of sorting and packing for a move (more on that another time), I’ve come across a recording of my first-ever public performance. Four Sidestreets (1986) for flute and piano was the result of a set of freshman-year composition assignments. The movements are short and undeveloped, the longest being...

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Upcoming London Performance

Posted on Oct 15, 2007 | 0 comments
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My clarinet/piano piece American Standard will be performed in London next week… Peter Furniss (clarinet) and David Leiher Jones (piano) will be holding a recital to celebrate the recent Clarinet Classics CD release, Time Pieces, 60 years of American music for clarinet and piano. The recital will take place on Wednesday, 24th October at 7:30pm. The...

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Revisiting the Trunk: "You Must Learn"

Posted on Oct 5, 2007 | 0 comments
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Throughout the year I’ve been occasionally posting recordings of songs from my earlier musical The Ghost of Wu. Today’s installment is the song “You Must Learn”, in which an ambitious mother lectures her naïve daughter, a concubine, in the ways of the Emperor’s court. This song is probably the most Sondheim-derivative thing...

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This and That

Posted on Jul 6, 2007 | 0 comments
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It’s been a while since I’ve had anything to blog about, so I thought I’d just check in, in case anyone’s still reading this. Later today I’m shlepping my family to Budapest for three weeks of fun, cake and eccentric conveyances. Someone recently asked if this trip has anything to do with my turning 40. I hadn’t made the...

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Let's Start at the End

Posted on Jun 20, 2007 | 0 comments
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So I just connected a dusty old hard drive to my shiny new Mac, and found some things I ought to share here. For starters, here’s my favorite cue from a film score I did a few years ago. This is the very end of Shakespeare’s Merchant. I can’t give you a whole synopsis of The Merchant of Venice here, but for this cue it helps to know that in...

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