Sunday, December 20, 2020

Notes for the composer career lecture

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Beff and I taught at Cortona Sessions in the summer of 2016, and boy was it hot, and boy was our room and all of our composer sessions hot....
Friday, August 14, 2020

What Milton actually wrote

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 In January 2011, Milton Babbitt died and I was conscripted by New Music Box to write an in memoriam article about him. The piano concerto ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The summer I came back.

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This is the St. Albans Citizens Band , together with what must have been a hastily assembled chorus, at a rehearsal for a Bicentennial conc...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Skylines

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Blue Griffin Recording recently released the Iridium Saxophone Quartet's Skylines album in digital form, and my Compass is on it in a ...
Friday, August 10, 2018

It's not an anthology

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... but it's cool being collected with the two H's. Whee! We're excited to take part in International Sheet Music Day on Sat...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Cleveland Rocks

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It's not often you get asked to do a residency where they are doing six premieres of your work, but it happened to me. Once. Keith Fitch...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Current colloquium rotation

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These are currently pieces I play, in different combinations, at presentations and colloquia I am asked to give. You can check out a far lar...
Friday, June 30, 2017

In which I pretend I can read music, because nametag

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Saturday, May 27, 2017

My Naumburg speech

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In 2006, I was elevated (if that is the word) to the Walter W. Naumburg Chair at Brandeis. At the time, all new Endowed Chair people were f...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Midlife on the edge

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I believe I was four years old — meaning it was 1962 — when the rules of life were read to me. I didn't understand at the time that thi...