Woke up in Seattle this morning because tonight is the première of Running Theme, a new string orches­tra piece for Town Music. Josh Roman (the famous cellist & newly-minted conduc­tor) leads a mixed consort of seasoned pros and talented high-school­ers. I think it’ll be good; the piece is a fun compound-meter romp with lots of squeaky harmon­ics. You can listen to the live broad­cast here, at 7:30 PST. 

I’m a bit gutted to be missing another première that’s happen­ing tonight in Detroit. It’s been four years since Sleeping Giant first asked eighth black­bird out for coffee, and now we’re having a baby! I mean, we wrote them a big piece. It’s called Hand Eye and we couldn’t be more proud of the little terror. There will be plenty of chances to hear it subse­quently over the coming season, includ­ing a semi-staged produc­tion by the amazing Candys­ta­tions.

A few new ‘works’ pages have been added to this website in the passive voice. 

None of them have audio yet—only enough words to excite your curiosity. 

This is just to say: this website is not dead, only sleeping. The 2014–15 concert season is almost over, the last hurrah being two out-of-town premières both happen­ing June 27^th. I’ll be super­vis­ing the proceed­ings in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who came to Miller Theater last night; it was great fun to play a bit of my music with some of my favorite friends & colleagues. 

What else? I’m moving again, still within Brooklyn. (This is a great relief; please continue to refer to me as a “Brooklyn-based composer” because it is very impor­tant to my sense of identity.)