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    July 12, 2008    
    Performance dates and press release for the production of Porcelain and Pink by F. Scott Fitzgerald I wrote music for follow below. The title of the show is "Summer Shorts & Other Literary Briefs" and promises to be a great hour of fun.

Xoregos Performing Company presents a program of three one-act plays: Porcelain and Pink by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which was published in Tales of the Jazz Age but not performed; The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov, and Silence of the Land by Adé Adémola. Knitting the 65-minute program together are poems spoken and danced by the six performers. Included are poems by e e cummings, Langston Hughes, and Alexander Pushkin. The performance schedule is as follows:

* 96TH STREET LIBRARY, 112 East 96th Street/Lexington (Saturday August 2 at 2pm)
* NORTH LAWN-WEST OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE at 80th Street, Riverside Dr./Henry Hudson (al fresco)
(Sunday, August 3 & 17 at 6pm)
* MORNINGSIDE LIBRARY, 2900 Broadway/113th Street (Monday August 4 at 6:30pm)
* OTTENDORPHER LIBRARY, 135 2nd Avenue between 8/9 Street (Tuesday, August 5 at 6:30pm)
* RIVERSIDE LIBRARY, 127 Amsterdam at 65th Street (Wednesday August 6 at 6:30pm)
* MUHLENBERG LIBRARY, 23rd Street at Seventh Avenue (Thursday August 7 at 6:30pm)
* BLOOMINGDALE LIBRARY, 150 West 100th St. (Amsterdam) (Saturday August 9 at 3pm)
* WASHINGTON MARKET PARK, Chambers/Greenwich Streets (al fresco) (Sunday, August 10 at 6pm)
* EPIPHANY LIBRARY, 226 E. 23 St between 2nd & 3rd Avenues (Monday August 11 at 6:30pm)
* KIP’S BAY LIBRARY, 446 3rd Avenue/31st Street (Tuesday August 12 at 6:30pm)
* YORKVILLE LIBRARY, 222 E. 79 Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues (Wednesday August 13 at 6:30pm)
* WEBSTER LIBRARY, 1465 York Avenue bewteen 77/78 Streets (Thursday August 14 at 6:30pm)
* JEFFERSON MARKET LIBRARY, 425 Sixth Avenue at 10 Street (Saturday August 16 at 2pm)
* COLUMBUS LIBRARY, 742 10 Avenue at 50 Street (Monday August 18 at 6:30pm)
* MID-MANHATTAN LIBRARY, Fifth Avenue at 40th St., 6th Floor (no lions) (Wednesday August 20 at 6:30pm)		    
           
    June 1, 2008    
    Recently completed two songs for Xoregos Performing Company's production of Porcelain and Pink by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Performance dates and show details to follow in a few weeks.    
           
    May 9, 2008    
    by the river had a surprise premiere April 29, 2008 by the Heartland Community Flute Choir in Omaha, NE conducted by Christine Beard. mp3 and pdf previews are posted on the works page. What an awesome group! For sure ,check out the link to their website! They also have facebook and myspace pages with audio of some great flute choir repertoire.    
           
    March 8, 2008  
    Finished PANiSONIC, a new work for the Iktus Percussion Quartet. PDF of the score up if you care to take a look. I'll have program notes up soon, and details about the premiere in the near future.    
           
    February 15, 2008  
   

Flute. Recently finished an arrangement of Myself (a choral work) for flute choir. It is the first flute choir piece I've ever done, and I want to thank Christie Beard for her help, and setting me straight when i made mistakes. I've titled the arrangement, by the river, and am really excited about how it turned out.
Few flute related performances coming up:
1) CRUSH for flute and marimba, March 25, 2008 at Stephen F. Austin State University by Christina Guenther and Scott Harris.
2) CRUSH for flute and marimba, August 7-10, 2008 (exact date to be determined) at the National Flute Association National Conference in Kansas City, MO.
3) Reading of by the river, conducted by Christine Beard, August 7-10, 2008 (exact date to be determined) at the National Flute Association National Conference in Kansas City, MO.

    
           
    November 29, 2007    
    Couple performances of Boondoggle, for violin, cello and piano coming up.
--The first takes place at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, December 2, 2007 on the season opening Forecast Music Concert. Violinist Julianne Klopotic, cellist Jody Redhage, and pianist Elaine Kwon are the performers.
--The second takes place January 29, 2008 at St. Peter's CitiCorp by Le Nuove Musiche performed by Marka Young, violin; Duo Lin Peng, cello; and Michael Eisenberg piano.		    
           
    October 3, 2007    
    Exciting news! Snapshot was named winner of the Holyoke Civic Symphony's 2007 Composition Competition. The work will be performed Oct. 21, 2007 at Holyoke Community College, conducted by David Kidwell. I'm thrilled that this piece continues to have performances each year.    
           
    September 15, 2007    
    Opera. For the last 4 months or so, I've been writing text and music for my first opera, titled SUCKER. This is the first huge burst of creativity I have had in years, they kind where all you want to do is work. 20 minutes done (full orchestra score and piano/vocal score). I will take a break and pick it back up in the spring, and re-do the orchestration for chamber ensemble. Forecast Music is considering putting on an evening of new opera in 2009.