2013 in Review

Well, 2013 was most certainly an interesting year, and I’m still working to regain my footing from decisions made around this time last year, and enacted in April. For those who are unaware, I left my day job at New York City Center on April 16 to pursue the...

A litter of new works

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve had a HUGE spike in my musical output. I finally finished Only Air, then wrote three new choral works and a song cycle. Part of the reason for the spike was the simple fact that four of the above-mentioned works were...

What a Difference…

After a frankly hellish few months at the day job (everyone agrees), I was finally able to take a few days away from the office to, y’know, get some writing done. With a whopping FOUR commissions on my plate, all of which need to be done by March 10, I was...

Playing Catch-Up

Only Air The orchestration to Only Air continues apace. I’m starting in on the third interlude this evening, which will be the most challenging one since it does require a bit of actual composition as well – my sketches, which are usually either detailed...

Double Bar!

After about a year and a half of on-again-off-again composing, I finally put a double bar on Only Air yesterday afternoon! As with most of my works, the ending was informally finalized ages ago (that is, definitely decided upon but not written down), so it’s...