A good example of the first stages of a new piece.

This was a little motif that wouldn’t leave my head, recorded on my iPhone outside New York’s Rockefeller Center, May 10th, 2012. I have no idea what this will become, if anything. My gut tells me it could be the theme of the third movement of a little ‘classical’ piano concerto I’ve always wanted to write, a companion piece to Mozart’s piano concerto #23. Who knows? For now, it will just go in the drawer with the rest of the ideas…

After twenty-five minutes of reading/rehearsing, the attendees of Soaring Leap: Ohio performed A Boy and a Girl. The microphone seems to have been covered for the last bit (an audience member recorded it on my iPhone) but I think the magic is still there. THANK YOU to all who attended.

I often make ‘drawings’ of pieces before I begin writing them, pages and pages of sketches, notes, and aspirations for the work that his yet to be made. Here is one of those pages from Equus, created in the very early days of the writing process. Click the pic for a much larger version.

Walking in Madrid this morning, marveling at this beautiful city, a thought occurred to me: the saying “talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is funny, but flawed. Dancing about architecture may in fact be the only way to accurately describe its emotional truth.