I am off to the Charlotte New Music Festival, a gathering of composers, performers and music lovers in the Queen City over the second half of June. I’ll be teaching seminars and lessons, and the Out of Bounds Ensemble will be premiering a new piece of mine – Let Slip – on June 23 at the Steinway Piano Gallery. Also on the program: Gestures (fl, ob, perc, pno) by Egid Joechi simul … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
Lost and Found
Long ago, I heard a lovely definition of creativity: “Finding what has been lost and making it new.” I’ve never been able to track down the source of that definition, but it’s stuck with me. We’ve all heard there is nothing new under the sun -- and we can certainly extend that axiom to the knowable universe – but the number of things that have been lost perpetually increases. Maybe newness is … [Read more...]