Clarinet Recital
I am having a clarinet recital! My first ever. My pianist is Tim Blalock. We are playing on Saturday September 21, 3pm, at the Tabernacle Church, 50 Washington Street, Salem MA. I will be playing...
View ArticleA great winter for music
These next few winter months are going to be fantastic for me and my music playing! I just finished a show in which I played flute/piccolo and a little bit of oboe. I took a handful of lessons to...
View ArticleWho’s a lucky bass clarinet player?
I am so lucky! I get to play bass clarinet for the Romeo and Juliet excerpts in the upcoming North Shore Philharmonic Symphony’s concert in April. Here is one of the movements: Isn’t the bass clarinet...
View ArticleSome practicing time
Another long stretch of gigs has come and gone. Since the middle of January, every weekend but Easter and one other (that one only had a rehearsal), I have had a concert or a show, or maybe both. I...
View ArticleMusic to listen to over and over again
There isn’t music much more basic than a piano and a voice or two. Every now and then I come across a piece that I have to listen to over and over again. Granted, part of that is my personality (or...
View ArticleHow to make a Buffet clarinet
I came across this video of a Buffet factory making clarinets. Absolutely amazing! These are the best clarinets in the world. I miss playing them.
View ArticleThe Theory of Everything
Listening to one of my favorite soundtracks, written by one of my favorite “new music” composers about one of my favorite scientists, and feeling a bit mournful. Johann Johannsson died February 10. I...
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Happiness is…a Bernstein Festival
I have been looking forward to the Leonard Bernstein Centennial Festival in Lawrence, Massachusetts, for months! I will be playing in the pit of all three shows/concert. The headliner show is, of...
View ArticleNew Musicals
This year, I have done (or will do) SIX new shows, that is, shows I have never done before! For the vast majority of the musicals I do, I love repeats, because I love most of the shows. There are a few...
View ArticleTimo Andres Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno
I admit I don’t know much (any?) of Brian Eno’s music, but this piece by Timo Andres is so beautiful I could weep with the joy it. It has enough dissonant sounds to satisfy the “new classical” music...
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