Inspiring Myself for Conservation

I am excited about this new choral piece The Future of Life. I always am before the premiere. But the theme, biodiversity, is particularly resonant in the real world. Since I wrote it, I’ve felt a bit obsessive about wanting to be better about conservation and energy efficiency. There’s a lot going on in my   Read More...

Notes on writing “The Future of Life”

It’s never been easy for me to find poetry that I want to use for choral music. Most seems too intimate. Essays have been what grabs me. It seems that choral music with all those voices needs to be about something big. So after reading The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, entomologist and   Read More...