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Noe Valley Chamber Music, May 23rd

Gala Benefit Concert in San Francisco

I’ll be performing with Thomas Glenn, an incredible and dynamic tenor who has performed with the San Francisco Opera, on May 23rd in a benefit concert for NoeValley Chamber Music at 4:00. The program will include scenes from my opera, Love/Hate, and a selection of my concert arias, rounded out with standards from the American songbook. Joining Thomas and me are three other fantastic singers – Melody Moore, Erin Neff and Torlef Borsting.

Sunday, May 23rd, 4:00pm
Noe Valley Ministry (map)
1021 Sanchez Street (corner of 23rd)
San Francisco, CA
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U.S. Patent Issues

Our U.S. patent application, for a method and system for generating musical arrangements directed to particular skill levels, has issued! After long hard work, the application passed to scrutiny of the U.S. patent examiners! Again, thanks to Srinka for making this possible, to Noel Kivlin for patient legal advice, and Matt Rainey, for encouraging me to follow through on this in the first place.

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Performances

My setting of Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed”, continues to get programmed! This month it will be performed by soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird and pianist Jocelyn Dueck, as part of a Walt Whitman set on a benefit concert presented by the 5 Boroughs Music Festival, Dec. 3 in Brooklyn Heights.

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In Fugue Performed with MFDP in Peru and San Francisco

In Fugue, based on Wait Here, the score for cello & piano I composed and performed for the Mark Foehringer Dance Project, was performed at Danza Nueva XX, a 20 year old contemporary dance festival in Lima, Peru, June 12-14, 2008, in collaboration with the Ballet Nacional del Peru. It was also reprised by Mark’s company in San Francisco on September 5 & 6.

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Tapestry New Opera – Betty Box Office

Over the summer I composed a scene with Canadian playwright Ken Gass, founder and Artistic Director of the Factory Theater in Toronto, called Betty Box Office. Ken was a joy to collaborate with – he crafted a perfectly imagined comic scene including a dream sequence, murder by pencil stabbing, and a seduction dance number that morphed from high baroque to gospel waltz! We’re planning a new opera for Tapestry New Opera, the leading Canadian organization for developing new opera and musical theater.

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American Opera Projects

6 Scenes

Composers & the Voice 2008 culminates in 6 scenes, presented october 3 & 4 at AOP’s home base, the South Oxford Space. Included on this program will be about 25 minutes of Love/Hate, the new one act chamber opera I’m composing for AOP and ODC Theater. The librettist for Love/Hate is my dear friend & longtime musical collaborator, Rob Bailis.  Here’s Rob’s description…

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First Glimpse and the Whitman Project

Three recent arias composed for AOP’s Composers & the Voice project (see below for more info about aop) will be performed:

May 8 at AOP’s home base
The South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY

May 9 at The Laurie Beechman Theater
West Bank Cafe
407 W 42nd Street
New York City, NY 10036

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Another aria on “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” was selected for the annual Whitman Birthday Bash organized by Greg Trupiano and the Walt Whitman Project.

7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Theater Ten Ten,
1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street

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American Opera Projects

Composers and the Voice

 

I was having breakfast with my buddy Rachael last October, when Steven Osgood called to see if i wanted to participate in Composers & the Voice for 2008. Ask Rachael – I’m pretty sure I yelled yes!!! into my cappuccino foam. AOP is a driving force behind the revitalization of contemporary opera in the United States, supporting the commissioning, development and presentation of new American opera.

Composers & the Voice is a year-long AOP workshop which let’s me write for up-and-coming young singers engaged at fancy places like the met and city opera. Over the Summer I’ll be writing a one act opera called Love/Hate (obsessive relationships, what else?) to a very funny libretto by my very clever friend Rob Bailis, to be performed in New York this Fall, and at ODC theater in 2010.