Creating Music for Dark Dramas!
Poster design by Bri Clark It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…..” - Macbeth , Act V, Scene 3 My recent projects for the Heidelberg School of Music and Theatre have been on the dark side, to say the least. Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure explored the depths of a would-be leader, one who wished to deprive his subjects of basic freedoms. There was some comedy on the side to balance things out, but perhaps this is why scholars refer to
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 the University of Wyoming, Stone Soup Studios in Maumee, Ohio, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Cincinnati. Mark Bunce, my recording engineer has supplied takes from all three of these recording sessions; together, we are compiling the best performances that we can produce for you to hear in the not-so-distant future! I enjoyed the record
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...
