If At First
2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the 1860 edition of Walt Whitman's monumental Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman Productions and American Opera Projects have commissioned a series of settings of the Calamus poems to be premiered on several concerts in the New York City area. My contribution to the effort will be a new version of a song I wrote a few years ago, "Trickle Drops," for tenor and piano. The new version, "Drops of Me," will be for baritone and cello.
Opera in Flight
operamission will present an evening of one-acts, scenes, and instrumental music new and not so new on April 2 and 3, 2010. My contribution to the evening's festivities will be my one-act opera Anniversary, originally penned in 2003.
Summer in Sombor (Letu u Somboru)
Spaces are still available, contact me for more details!
Summer in Sombor is a week-long composition seminar led by the members of the South Oxford Six composers collective. This seminar is an opportunity for up to 12 students to spend a week with the members of the collective and a resident ensemble exploring the art and craft of composition from a variety of perspectives. The seminar includes group sessions, individual instruction, readings by the resident ensemble and public concerts. The language of instruction will be English and the seminar takes place in Sombor, Serbia in July 12-18, 2010.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
operamission, that is…
Stage a concert of Handel scenes in a hotel lobby. Impossible, you say? Well, the inimitable and indefatigable Jennifer Peterson (conductor, vocal coach and self-proclaimed Handel nut) did that just last night at the Gershwin Hotel.
