Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Inspiration category.

New and Updated: Essays and Study Outlines

Be sure to check out my newly updated Additional Reading page!! Now featuring the essay RAVEL’S DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ: A Miracle in the Making, and 6 Study Outlines on composers, their lives, and specific featured works, including:

Lully
Boccherini
Hindemith
Messiaen
Penderecki
Ravel

I have one more essay (of which I am VERY proud) – an in-depth study on Leonard Bernstein’s Second Symphony [...]


Join the First Online Orchestra!

“Join the world’s first collaborative online orchestra.
We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.
…Professionals and amateur [...]


My Latest Work

I know… it’s been a while… But I have an excuse - because I’m getting married next week!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!
But I did want to put this up officially while I was thinking about it…
My latest completed work, Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie, is meant to be a jaunty comedic work, based on a lesser-known tale from the famous [...]


ASIMO Conducts the DSO!

That’s right! Everybody’s favorite little robot debuted conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a live performance of “Impossible Dream” from the 1965 Broadway show Man of La Mancha on May 13! 

(Hm…. ASIMO should have hired this guy to be his concertmaster!!…)


‘Glass’ Movie

Yay! One of my favorite composers – exposed on documentary film!

Check the Official Site here…