Program Notes Memories about one’s own pieces are a strange thing. Three Scenes is a substantial revision of a string quartet I composed in 2019 that was read at Syracuse University at that time. My memory is that the reading did not go particularly well, and I therefore never felt happy with the work although… Continue reading Three Scenes
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Spiraling (Just, Like Archimedes)
Program Notes In the past two or three years I have primarily composed instrumental music using the names of the performers for whom a given piece is written. In the Summer of 2024, however, I decided that it was time to try a new approach, and I composed a piece using the Sierpinski triangle as… Continue reading Spiraling (Just, Like Archimedes)
Mercy in a Pathless Land
The Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that “truth is a pathless land,” a saying intended to caution the listener against following gods and gurus. While composing this piece, I entered my own kind of pathless land. As in many of my recent works, I derived the piece’s materials from the names of the performers for… Continue reading Mercy in a Pathless Land