Weill and Brecht on the Clarinet?
Earlier this spring, I was pleased to have a short piano work of mine performed by my good friend David Kirkendall as part of a solo...
Listening Again and Again: Updates on While I Run This Race, July 2024
Work continues on my CD/streaming project, While I Run This Race . Recording sessions were held in 2023 in several locations, including...
Update on the Teasdale Project
LISTEN TO THE TEASDALE PROJECT: The RECORDINGS section from this website offers several songs from the Teasdale Project: ·       A...
MEASURE for MEASURE: Shakespeare with a Dystopian Twist
Music prepared for Act V, Scene 1, Measure for Measure. All music for the production was produced using the Reason DAW program....
Songs of Celebration: Making an Old Work New Again
Songs of Celebration, Mvt. 3 Listen to Movement 3, Song to the Holy Spirit in the Choral section of the Recordings page. What does a...
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Some background on my latest organ work, The Light of Light Descending, a theme and variations composition, based on the French carol,...
Writing for Choirs
Choral music has always been a very natural and personal mode of expression for me. I love to write for choral forces; when we sing, we...
Putting it Together: An Update on Eurydice
Last fall, I had the pleasure or reading James Lapine’s new book, Putting it Together. In it, Lapine chronicles the day-to-day experience...
I'm Just A Squeeze-box in an All-Polka Band
You have probably seen the infamous cartoon: a robber invades a private home, ties up the woman of the house and begins to ransack the...
The Film that Changed My Life
"My God, it's full of stars!......." -Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey 2018 brings the fiftieth anniversary of the release of...