Don't send a boy to do a man's work.

The guitar and mandolin can only do so much.

10 or 15 years ago, Robert Pollock, Director of Ebb & Flow Arts, of Maui, together with Shinhee Park, of Veritas Musicae, of Seoul, got me involved in a project to compose for VM's extraordinary musicians in Seoul, performing at Ilshin Hall. No guitars.

I contributyed a clarinet trio, a piano trio, and a quartet for cl, vln, and other works. They began modestly and developed for many, many years, making quantum leaps forward. I'm now working on getting the revised versions performed.

I am working on a glossary of compositional terms to keep some necessary music compositional principles alive, after noticing that with all the great new things that music is doing, some other great things are forgotten. The glossary also touches upon the aftermath of the Rockwell Coup, which, I argue, blurs what was once a hard boundary at 1918, eliminating modernist taboos against crossing that line and connecting with Brahms the progressive.

Through various collaborations with the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, I'm trying to find places for new music to thrive in Greenwich Village, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Salzburg, and Passau.

The Village Trip
Berlin Academy of American Music (BAAM)
Summer Music Aldersbach
Center for the Liberation of Sound and Image (CLSI)
Veritas Musicae
Ekmelic Society of Salzburg

More about these new works on the BLOG.

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