October 21st, 2011
DZ4 presents my short but effusive piece “B Major, or Funky B of Many Sharps, or Do These Sharps Make Me Look Fat?”
As part of their 24-key hurdy-gurdy festival. It will be a blast and you should all go if you can. These are four absolutely drop dead superb players, all close colleagues and friends of mine. The company is good, too-lots of fun young composers. This will be a great concert and party! I only wish I could come myself.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21ST 2011 AT 10:15 PM
Greenwich House
46 Barrow Street, New York, NY
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October 16th, 2011
On October 16th at 4pm, the Songs of Ishmael, my Leviathan-sized song-cycle, were premiered at the Unitarian Church of All Souls, which commissioned the work, and where Herman Melville attended for many years of his New York life.
Listen to a sample here.
Performers: Molly Quinn, Nacole Palmer, Sopranos
Benedicte Jourdois, Piano
This premiere was the culmination and realization of over 4 years of work for me, and it was an amazing premiere.
I had the chance to spend the month of July on these songs, composing them while at residence at the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, New York, some 20 miles from Pittsfield, Massachussetts, where Melville finished Moby Dick (upon texts of which these songs are composed). Below, the wonderful performers after the premiere. From left to right, Molly Quinn, Nacole Palmer, Bénédicte Jourdois, and James Blachly.
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