The Sound of the Flute is on it's way to Carnegie Hall.

I'm happy to have delivered the score of THE SOUND OF THE FLUTE, on a text by Mirabei, to Jeff Redding at the University of Central Florida.  His singers and my former colleagues NoraLee Garcia (flute) and Robin Jensen (piano) will premiere the work at Carnegie Hall in March.  

Snowfall now in print

I'm pleased that Walton Music has released SNOWFALL, for SATB a cappella chorus, on Kazuaki Tanahashi's translation of a Ryokan poem.  

GREAT PEACE

I recently delivered the score of GREAT PEACE, a multi-movement, twenty minute work, on texts by Kazuaki Tanahashi with Doreen Rao and Peter Levitt.  Scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, mixed chorus, oboe and piano, the work is in three sections:  War, Naomi's Prayer, and Great Peace.

Mahler's BIG 8th

Once again, summer concerts in Chicago's Millennium Park were a weekly pilgrimage for me. The magnificent closing to the Grant Park Music Festival's 90th season and Carlos Kalmar's last concert after 25 years as music director was the big Mahler 8.  Sensational. And the rain held off until the final measures!

The World Comes to Newfoundland

I had the great fortune of attending the inaugural HarborVOICES International Festival of Collective Singing Traditions in St. John’s, Newfoundland in June --  an incredible week of performances, sessions, and collaborations that brought together forty-four choirs from around the world. What a unique opportunity to hear the Philippine Madrigal Singers, Vancouver Youth Choir, Inuksuk Drum Dancers, World Youth Choir, M’anam (men’s ensemble from Ireland) and Jacob Collier all in the same place! Gratitude to the Artistic Directors, staff, directors, singers and volunteers that made this week possible.  (And Newfoundland's craggy coasts, rocky beaches, balsam forests, rivers, waterfalls and lakes are gorgeous!)