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Category: Compositions
17 May 2024
October 10 7:30 at Loft393
there will a preview of Trevor Bača-Paul Griffiths’ when the time comes featuring actress Nancy Robinette, director Joy Zinoman and Cygnus. This project is a first in theater, where the musicians as musicians are …
22 April 2024
Suben Memorial
Scorca Hall starting at 11 AM on May 4
330 7th Ave
7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
When I was studying composition with Joel Suben, he avowed a deep love of Carter. And he expressed a reservation.
Sometimes Carter “hangs his …
18 March 2024
Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain
I come back to Brokeback Mountain from time to time. There are elusive mysteries lurking in Wuorinen’s great work and in Proulx’s short story. I’ve taken this dive before and each time I hope to get …
11 February 2024
The brilliant and enterprising composer Emil Awad is the founder and director of the Festival Camarata 21 at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many of us have participated – Mario Davidovsky, Robert Pollock, Suzanne Farrin, …
19 December 2023
In a modern building, like a Frank Gehry building, the joinery is often custom joinery designed specifically for the needs of one building. The angles might not be 90 degrees.
So also in music. I am so accustomed to customized joinery that I find …
26 October 2023
In progress…
Yesterday at Oktaven Studios in Mount Vernon, New York, Cygnus recorded Martin Boykan’s “Diptych” and Richard Festinger’s “Hidden Spring”.
Some notes on Boykan, HERE. Those comments mostly about …
24 September 2023
Taking up Bowery Haunt again with Oren Fader has led to a continual stream of quiddities emerging from the experience of the music. Talking about them makes them seem abstract, but these are visceral. I am only interested in the visceral – what …
11 August 2023
Sept 14 T h e V i l l a g e T r i p
GuitarFest 1
In Memory of Scott Johnson
at Loft393 will include Scott’s Bowery Haunt (2005).
Eventbrite Tickets –>
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/tvt-guitarfest-1/
I don’t know what …
