• 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 …

• Nov 30, 2018

Mond, als träte ein Totes Aus blauer Höhle, Und es fallen der Blüten Viele über den Felsenpfad. Silbern weint ein Krankes Am Abendweiher, Auf schwarzem Kahn Hinüberstarben Liebende. I spoke to a microtonal composer …

• Nov 29, 2018

Carter took one abrupt turn, and much later, a gentle turn. His music from the '50s did not draw a hard line around scale degrees. Scale degree associations were not avoided like the plague. He drew the line in the 60s or …

• Nov 29, 2018

The sound of the opening of Poema armónico is *minor 7 chord*, with little inflections to 027. To extend this sound through the chromatic space we have the octotonic option, transposing by multiples of 3, the minor third …