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1974-1988 Music School to Jazz Harp Trio (Chronology 2)
I started writing an outline of my life a few years ago for a TV producer who asked for an overview of my life. Like a lot of the content I’ve created, it’s waited patiently on a shelf. Last week was my birthday, and I made a commitment to myself: this...
The Second Life of a Miniature – with Chamber Ensemble at Sensoria
When I was building the huge symphonic project “Invention & Alchemy” ten years ago, I needed some kind of ‘miniature’ to work in. We’d be filming with 70-piece symphony orchestra – a full evening of my original orchestral works – which would eventually end up as...
Piano Reduction!
No, it’s not the Steinway Diet Plan, or a toy piano. A “Piano Reduction” is a ‘reduction’ of a symphonic piece of music into a part that’s playable on piano. It takes all the music from the whole orchestra and reduces it onto two...
Hearing My Own Voice – “Mythic Women”
“O heartless blackbird, how dare you pierce my sorrow with your song?” I wrote that lyric years ago, for a one-woman, one-act opera called “Persephone Lost.” It’s sung by a woman who’s lost her child. A goddess. A powerful woman who’s suddenly powerless to find what...
