I’m back to work on a new piece for eighth blackbird. This one, entitled Night Rituals is for the full eighth blackbird instrumentation (flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano), and focuses on three pre-Christian Western rituals as its inspiration.
The first movement, “Ch’ab’,” is inspired by a Mayan bloodletting ritual. It is as [...]
For the past three weeks I’ve been working on finishing an old piece that had to be put aside for a while, called Currents, which basically takes its inspiration from concepts of fluid and particle dynamics. The first two movements were written in 2004 and are called “The Bernoulli Effect” and “AC/DC,” being (respectively) musical [...]
I’ve been working on a piece for symphonic band called Three Colors, commissioned by the St. Olaf [College] Band, Timothy Mahr, conductor. I’ve conceived of it as a concerto for band in three movements, each being a personal meditation on a color of the American flag (after the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s film trilogy Trois [...]
Live Performance by eighth blackbird
For mixed choir, wind ensemble, and organ
Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Live performance by The Cornell Chorale, James P. Miller, conductor