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Most Audacious Itinerary Ever

Keep us is your hearts and prayers…
eighth blackbird
Chamber Music Society of Louisville (Louisville KY) | 15 November 2009
SUN 15 Nov
FLIGHT
8:03a Lv Chicago (ORD) – United 5992
10:20a Ar Louisville (SDF)
TRANSFER
You will be met by three drivers at the airport
University of Louisville – School of Music
Louisville, KY 40292
~11:00a REHEARSAL
Comstock Concert Hall
(percussion will have been delivered and set [...]

Colburn Collaboration, Café, Crotchets and Coffee

It’s a beautifully sunny day in downtown Los Angeles.  The birds are singing, a cool breeze blows through my window as I sip my morning coffee (Peet’s, to be sure) and gaze out from the penthouse guest suites at the Colburn School at the resplendent Disney Concert Hall. In a few minutes, I’ll head down [...]

How To Build a Better Mouse Trap

It’s 6:30 PM and I’m all alone in the studio.  Sort of.
After being gone for almost 2 weeks, with most of my colleagues still away taking a short European holiday, I am back in Chicago rehearsing and putting the finishing touches on Lee Hyla’s rockin’ tour de force for bass clarinet and baritone saxophone We [...]

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