My thanks and gratitude to friends and colleagues Jos Milton, tenor, Adam Estes, saxophone and Stacy Rodgers, piano for a wonderful performance of excerpts from my song cycle Langston's Lot at the Region 6 meeting of the North American Saxophone Association, in Valdosta, GA earlier today. (Saturday, March 11). Unfortunately, I could not attend the conference myself, but I knew that my music was in the best of hands! The four of us had the opportunity to work together last mo

I'm not sure, but my music may have made its Oklahoma debut last night, thanks to the efforts of a good friend and colleague. Melissa Bosma gave her first faculty recital as Oklahoma State's new oboe specialist and included my Four States of Mind, for oboe and piano on the program. Melissa and I met when she taught part-time on the Heidelberg music faculty. She made the long trip weekly, from Ann Arbor to Tiffin and back again, just to teach a very small handful of students a