I’ll be out of town for the next week, off in New Jersey for the Moses performance and the beginning of Passover. While I’ll have my laptop with more, I’m not sure on connectivity with it. The best ways to reach me, if needed, will be by my cell phone or my gmail address (my first name dot my last name at gmail dot com).
The Moses project is on. I’ll be performing it with the Toms River Multigenerational Orchestra on Sunday, April 1. It will be a private performance, at a residential care facility somewhere in Jackson, NJ, and I won’t be able to invite people to the gig. But I hope to get a useful recording of the performance, and to be able to post it online.
If I’ve fallen unusually silent of late, blame it on the Moses project. The composing’s been eating up most of my available time and brainwidth, and I’ve been falling behind on email and other such necessities.
As usual, work on creative stuff has gotten stuck in a sargasso of technical crud, but I’ve dug my way out, and the accelerated composing of “Moses” continues.
I’ve been asked to compose a piece for narrator and string orchestra, for a performance in New Jersey just before Passover, on the themes of the holiday. The music is still coming together, but here’s the text as it now stands:
On Wednesday, 24 January 2007, The “Wednesdays at Grace” performance series presents:
D’MAMAH (דממה)
(Hebrew for “Still,” as in “a still, small voice”)
Nancy Beckman: shakuhachi, voice
Thomas Bickley: recorder, electronics, voice
Joseph Zitt: voice
Performing “Badbury Rings,” “Banquet of Heaven,”
“Te lucis ante terminum,” and other works and improvisations
7 pm
Grace North Church
2138 Cedar Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Open to the public without charge
Logging this before I knock the stack over yet again… I’ve found some good stuff in cheap CD bins over the past few weeks, looking in both the Berkeley and San Francisco Amoebas, Half Price Books in Berkeley, and a few real finds at the Community Thrift Shop on Valencia Street in San Francisco:
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