Recent Projects
My recent project, Angel Music, takes its name from its musical seeds in my Christmas cantata Shepherds and Angels. However, Angel Music is soulful & happy music for any recital.
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Category: Composing
Notes on writing music
100 Notes of Toy Piano
Yesterday (June 2019) I got an email from composer/keyboard player David Bohn that my submission to his call for scores was accepted. A friend found the call on ComposerSite (http://composerssite.com/content/toy-piano-100-project) and he thought it would entertain me. It was for newly composed 100-note compositions for toy piano. I had fun improvising a bit, and I Read More...
Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus
The poster for the premiere of Songs from a Quaker Heart is beautiful! Now that I’ve finally removed it from the Spindrift front page, I thought I’d “save” it in this blog post. Music for a Spring Evening – PDF version
Composing “Songs from a Quaker Heart”
What fun to hear the rehearsal of “Songs from a Quaker Heart” last night. This new music SATB chorus and piano is getting its premiere by the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, who commissioned it. The poems are by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, a fellow resident of Lexington, MA. So many of Marian’s poems are direct observation of Read More...
In memory of my father
My father died in 2011 at the age of 93. I wrote the poem Deepest Shade in 2010 as he was losing the ability to communicate with us. I set it to music soon after.
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