• Apr 20, 2019

Notes toward June lecture

• Apr 08, 2019

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT by Zadel Barnes " Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." --Thanatopsis. Amantem sui Natura Salutat. Thus sang a glorious voice, that, full and …

• Mar 09, 2019

the lyrics are old, some perhaps ancient, the music is new

• Mar 08, 2019

I am terribly grateful to the Bowers-Fader Duo. They asked me to write songs. I did, and then they performed them! They presented my new settings of Québécois lyrics on October 27, 2018 at 8pm at Tenri Cultural …

• Dec 09, 2018

James Levine set a trap for Milton Babbitt at a Babbitt's 90th birthday celebration at Weill Hall. Levine produced the event through the MET Opera Chamber Players. Tenor Niel Farrell &I opened the concert with Babbitt's …

• Dec 02, 2018

The classical guitar scene is magic realist. Classical guitarists are mostly magic realists, as are most guitarist composers. By this I mean simply that the guitar is perpetually Baroque, or if not that, the guitar is …