New work, a month without booze, and R.E.M.

August 11, 2014

Just recently I finished (I think) writing seven pieces for what I’m calling a double trio – piano, bass, drums, violin, viola and cello. This work is going to be Read the full article…

Çe soir

June 24, 2014

The turntable went to the shop, a place peopled by lunatics, and when finally I retrieved it I was told there had been nothing wrong with it. By some amazing Read the full article…

The Salon recital

May 17, 2014

Two things surprised me: I was nervous, but nowhere near as nervous as I’d expected I’d be, and today I’m not in a slough of depression such as frequently follows Read the full article…

A disquisition on a couple of things that shit me

April 5, 2014

Because life is pretty miserable, and just about everything you can see is motivated by greed or self-interest or indefensible fear of the different, because we fight with our children Read the full article…

Mid ’90s

February 5, 2014

What’s happening here is that I’m dredging back a whopping eighteen years into the recesses of my collection, to a performance given on October 23, 1995. This was my twenty-fourth Read the full article…