On my way up to Great Barring­ton right now to here the wonder­ful ACME Quartet première Thrive on Routine at a place called Crissey Farm, which I’m seri­ously hoping is an actual farm, because my piece contains a movement called “potatoes”. This will be the second piece I’ve written for the group, and I couldn’t be happier to be working with them again; these are the type of players who basi­cally do all your work for you, and then you just come in at the last minute and mumble inco­her­ent things about “shape” and “gesture” and then they smile and nod and play it even better. So pretty much, if you’re in the Berk­shires, which I know many of you are this time of the season, you’ve got no excuse not to be there.

What else is kind of amazing is that I just wrote and posted this from a Peter Pan BUS.