Rest in Peace, Dietrich. You will be truly missed.

Oh, yes. We truly are in a golden age of choral singing.

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... continued

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.

Hilary Hahn and I will be sharing a concert in London, May 11th. Part of Decca’s Yellow Lounge series, setting classical music in urban spaces with DJs and VJs. Woo hoo!

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Rules for a children’s choir, but as Dawn Fahnestock points out, these should apply to adults as well.

My dear friend (and Paradise Lost co-creator) David Norona has put together an extraordinary three day workshop for groups and individuals called Broadway Next. Not only will you learn to audition, rehearse and perform with Broadway pros, you’ll meet agents,... continued

Studying this tonight. (Conducting it in Madrid this weekend). Such elegant writing. So simple; so American.

From the Classics Today review of Water Night:

“The only problem is, at nine and one-half minutes, Alleluia… simply demands more text (Randall Thompson’s famous setting of the word, at four and one-half minutes, stretched the idea about as far as it... continued

A fascinating (and I think unprecedented) insight into an artist’s creative process. I find it inspiring how Imogen remains so emotionally open and vulnerable at the same time.