The Caucasian Chalk Circle opened on Saturday at Dordt College. There are four more shows in the next week, two of which I plan to attend. I’m told the two performances on Saturday went well and were well received by sold-out audiences. While I don’t have an exact count, all told I ended up with [...]

I’ve posted a recording of “Monument,” the first movement from my in-progress Sinfonia, on my MySpace page. It was read earlier this week by the UMKC Conservatory Orchestra, who performed it admirably (the recording is spliced together from various takes done over the course of a mere 20 minutes–the first time the orchestra saw the [...]

Rehearsals have been underway for the past week and a half, and De Profundis is starting to sound like an actual piece of music (!) — encouraging. I have received several comments about the impressiveness of having actually corralled fifteen people into one room in order to make it happen, but better yet I’ve gotten [...]