Review of FTM 10 concert

Sabrina Pena Young has written a review of Feminist Theory and Music 10 Concert 1 in North Carolina in May. The concert included my Body and Soul Vol. 2, sung by soprano Jodi Hitzhusen, with an art exhibition by Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer, my collaborator in the project along with poet Elizabeth Kirschner. Read it here…   Read More...

Stockhausen’s Kontakte at SICPP in Boston

This week is SICPP at New England Conservatory (Summer Institute in Contemporary Performance Practice, also known as Sick Puppy, I didn’t make that up. They call it that!). Along with the seminar activities during the day (I participated in 2007), there is a fabulous week of free evening concerts — the big, hard-to-program, fascinating works   Read More...

Storing Old Vellum – Why?

Why do I still have a pile of vellum for music copying? I’ve got sheets with layouts for quintets, quartets, parts, chorus. It’s such old technology. I never want to go back to copying music by hand with pens on transparent vellum, which are then copied using a diazo machine. For those of you who   Read More...

New Year’s Resolutions

A New Years Resolutions thread at Sequenza 21 reminded me about making New Year’s resolutions. There’s so many needs tugging at me, but all I want to do is make musical plans. I want to remedy my lack of momentum of the past few months. Everyone knows – economic times are tough. They’re tough here   Read More...