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November/December performances
Sustinui Te will receive two performances in November, with soprano Katie Woolf singing and me at the computer. The first will be Thursday, November 5, at the Electronic Music Midwest festival hosted by Kansas City Kansas Community College. The concert is free, and will begin at 7:30pm. The second will be at a KcEMA fundraising [...]
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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 [...]
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Two new works
I’ve recently completed two new compositions, and expect premieres of each in the fall. Tango-Passacaglia is for flute, violin, cello, and piano, written for my friend Elizabeth Robinson, a doctoral student flutist at Ball State University. The goal with this piece was an unpolished, raw sort of feel, with a focus more on driving rhythmic [...]
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New recording posted
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 [...]
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