Composer / Conductor
This afternoon I’ll be on my way to WMEA in Madison, WI, where the Univ. MN Duluth Wind Ensemble under Mark Whitlock will perform Suite Dreams on Thursday morning at 11:30. Immediately after that, I hop on the bus with the UMD band and we drive six hours up to Duluth, where I’ll spend… continued
The Ecstatic Waters performance yesterday here at UT went really well. I’m still a bit stunned by it. We had one problem with feedback in the Bassoon mics (same thing that happened at Bowling Green – in the same place I think), which is weird in that it never happened in any rehearsals, but has… continued
Ecstatic Waters will be webcast live from the University of Texas Austin Wind Ensemble concert on Sunday, Oct. 26th.You can listen here (it’s only a LIVE webcast – it will NOT be archived online):http://winds.music.utexas.edu/eventDetails.aspx?id=9525DATE AND TIME:4:00 PM CST, Oct. 26th, 2008
Got back yesterday morning from Bowling Green, and headed straight from the airport to rehearsal at UT for this Sunday’s concert. More about that shortly.It was great to be back in BG – sort of a second home to me after spending a year in residence there, and this was my third time at their… continued
After rehearsal today at UT, I’m off to Bowling Green State Univ. for the premiere this Thursday night of Ecstatic Waters, and then back here immediately for the second performance on Sunday! Not sure I’ll be taking many pictures – I have some button-pressing I have to do for the piece…
Announcing a new consortium by world-class cellist Caroline Stinson, for cello and orchestral winds. Caroline is an extremely versatile and truly fantastic performer – she’s toured with Bang on a Can, is a member of the cello quartet CELLO, was personally invited by Pierre Boulez to work with him as part of… continued
Just got out of rehearsal for Ecstatic Waters – this is the first time we’ve done the whole piece…and it’s going to work like gangbusters. This is also the first time we had the mics on the clarinet and bassoons, which is going to be quite cool. The clarinet sounds exactly like I’d hoped, and… continued
I have a fair amount of travel coming up this year, so thought I’d post it in case anyone reading this is in the area for any of these and wants to come to a concert and say ‘howdy.’10/21 – 10/24: Bowling Green, OH – premiere of Ecstatic Waters (10/23) – Bruce Moss, BGSU Wind… continued
…sort of.Just found out the VCU (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) Sym. Wind Ensemble will do Radiant Joy tonight, and are also featuring guest artist (trumpeter) Allen Vizzutti on the program. Cool. Will probably be a worthwhile show – if you’re in Richmond, VA, go!Tonight at 8pm. Here’s the info. Live web stream at 8:00PM… continued
Loki is over for a visit for a few days. Yesterday, he came face to face with a potential playmate (and by playmate, I mean “meal”):Yes, I’ve devolved to cat-blogging. But he is cute.Back to work on tweaking the electronics tracks for Ecstatic Waters. Maybe Loki can help…
Ecstatic WatersI. Ceremony of InnocenceII. AugursIII. The Generous Wrath of Simple MenIV. The Loving Machinery of JusticeV. Spiritus Mundi (epilogue)Score and parts are complete and delivered.For any other piece, I would be finished, but now I must fine-tune, massage, mix, and determine exactly how I will trigger the electronics. And maybe even practice my part… continued
Wow – it was great to hear Eugene Corporon and the UNT Wind Symphony do the complete Parody Suite last night. This is the first time I’ve heard them all collected in a single set. Bruce Moss did all four of them on a program at Bowling Green when I was there, but they… continued