Blogs generally involving composition in some round-about way.
A recording of "Journey to Barcelona", which is from Scene 4 of my recently completed anti-fascist opera, Don Henry. Don Henry is a chamber opera that tells the true story of a University…
Below is a document which enumerates my performances for the last academic year. It has been an exciting year! There is still one upcoming performance in Hong Kong this May.…
The 2017 SCI Region VI conference was hosted by Dan Cavanagh and UT-Arlington this year. My colleague Ben Justis and I took the trip down from the University of Kansas…
The Fifth International Conference on Minimalist music took place from September 23-27, 2015. This conference is put on every two years by the Society for Minimal Music. Some of the…
This article is about confidence. After a 4 hour train ride, a 12 hour layover in Chicago, and a 19-hour train ride, I had finally reached Penn Station in Manhattan.…
2014 was such an exciting year! I think 2015 will be even more exciting. I’ll be participating in three conferences in 2015. First, I will be sharing a bit of…
Hello all! For those of us lucky enough to remain in the world of academia, the slow turbulence that is the Fall Semester has been well under way for about…
I'm gonna be honest folks, I'm sitting here on my phone in a cramped Subaru on my way back to Michigan, my mind complete mush, barely able to process this…
Day 4 of the UMKC Composition Workshop began with a listening session with Dr. Jim Mobberley. Afterwards, he shared some of his own music with us. During the listening session…
Day 3 of the UMKC Composition Workshop was focused mostly on the one and only Dr. Paul Rudy. First off, he led us in a listening exercise in which he…