Category Archives: Listening

3 Composers, 4 Quartets

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In just over one week from this precise moment†, my good friends Alex Freeman and Mathew Fuerst, together with the Amernet String Quartet, will present the second-ever program of our works on a concert at Merkin Hall on Manhattan’s Upper … Continue reading

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New Video!

Last week, Canadian violinist Jasper Wood performed my Double Aria at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. His performance was astounding! It was then that he let me know that, a few months back, he made this YouTube video: It’s equally amazing—thanks, Jasper!!

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Our Vanishing Repertoire

I’m generally not a fan of the “doom-and-gloom”-style article proclaiming the Death of Classical Music. Hasn’t the state of music always been lousy? Want proof? See Ned Rorem’s “Our Music Now (1984)” in Settling the Score: Essays on Music. But … Continue reading

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Arnica Quartet to Play String Quartet No. 2 in Tacoma, Wash.

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I’m really excited that my good friends in the Arnica Quartet will be performing my Second String Quartet at 7:30PM on Jan. 30 at the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, Wash. The program is a homecoming of sorts, as the … Continue reading

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A Tribute to Ned

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Ned Rorem (Photo © Christian Steiner) Last week, on Oct. 23, Ned Rorem celebrated his 91st birthday. I studied with Ned at Curtis from 1993-97. It was an experience that one could never forget, and it shaped me forever. While … Continue reading

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Listen @ This, Part 3: Pastoralia

As NYC and the entire NE region brace for a major winter storm—one which the media has taken to calling “Nemo,” in a fit of particularly crass commercialism (“If we name it, we can SELL it!”)—I have been reflecting on … Continue reading

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Listen @ This, Part 2: Hindemith Quartets

There was a kind of “Hindemith Moment” in the 1980s or ’90s—I’m not sure when; I just know I started listening to him around the tail end of it, and that happened to coincide with my musical coming of age. … Continue reading

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Listen @ This, Part 1: Lutoslawski Third Symphony

For a while now, I have wanted to produce a series of podcasts with my friend Alex Freeman called Listen @ This (TM). Essentially, this would be a place where you, adrift on a sea of auditory flotsam, would come … Continue reading

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New website!

Welcome to my new website. Blog posts to follow very soon!

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