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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Harberg

25-Nov-05

Better Half and I had dinner last weekend with composer Amanda Harberg (and her own B.H.), where she presented me with a recording of her new piece for 2 pianos, recently premiered up at Ithaca College. AH is an old friend from school, and back in the day, she lit up Juilliard with some fantastic [...]

Internationality

21-Nov-05

Yesterday brought 2 surprise distributions from my Performing Rights Agency of Choice. These envelopes are always a gamble—the occasional smaller numbers bring the giggles, and the larger numbers bring confusion (wait, what performance? what piece?). But nothing quite beats the infrequent international distribution for quality of humor: Envelope containing the writer distribution. $3.34Envelope containing the [...]

My kind of town

17-Nov-05

Finally, a brief report on a terrific weekend: four days in Chicago, all for last Sunday’s Metropolitan premiere, and Music Director Allen Tinkham led the CYSO in a truly fantastic concert. The orchestra played the tar out of it, and the piece sounded like a million bucks. These are incredibly impressive musicians, all of whom [...]

17-Nov-05

A wildly-successful premiere of Metropolitan this past weekend—Music Director Allen Tinkham and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra brilliantly brought the piece into the world in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, in a stunning program of Newman, Bartók, Smetana, and Sibelius. I was floored with how marvelous this orchestra is, and humbled at how much work these young [...]

The Finland Inside

09-Nov-05

Tomorrow I leave for Chicago, for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra‘s world premiere performance of Metropolitan in Orchestra Hall on Sunday. The CYSO’s terrific Music Director Allen Tinkham will conduct, and it’s sure to be a barn-burner! Turns out I share the program with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony. Coincidentally this is my #1 desert-island piece [...]

09-Nov-05

Tomorrow I leave for Chicago, for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra‘s world premiere performance of Metropolitan in Orchestra Hall Sunday night. The CYSO’s brilliant Music Director Allen Tinkham will conduct these fantastic musicians, and the reports are that rehearsals go very well, so it’s sure to be a barn-burner!

Playwright snapshot

08-Nov-05

Slackin’ on the notebook duties again, so here’s a quick bite of artsy goodness to take the edge off the appetite… Last night I biked to Tribeca for a play reading—not my usual cultural fare, in fact I would say that’s usually the sort of thing I might avoid, but the exception in this case [...]

Correction

01-Nov-05

It was bound to happen—an embarrassing goof due to either haste or simple negligence. The first of many, I’m sure, but hopefully easily put right … Extraordinary pianist Stephen Gosling humbly reminded us that it was he, and not the other pianist of distinction who played (brilliantly, I’d like to reiterate) the George Tsontakis Bagatelle [...]