On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater
Schubert's The Trout (new English translation by me)
Soooooooooooo yes, we are starting our first MELISANDE sing-through tonight, I am very excited, but before we get to all
Federalist Paper #12
We're having our first sing-through for MELISANDE on Friday (we're just singing through two of the
What have we learned?
I was thinking the other day, because Larry and I were watching Jerry Springer: The Opera –
which was his idea,
In which I sing "Haze" from Dave Malloy's Three Houses (and play parts of the score on the organ)
I've mentioned before that I am the organist at the local Unitarian Church, and since last week was
Federalist Paper #11
I have been thinking about maps, lately, in a way that suggests I am about to come up with a
In which I actually write a love song
There's a paragraph in The Biographies of Ordinary People in which Meredith realizes that she does not know
On thought leadership and what I like to think about before I fall asleep
It troubles me that so much of the still-independent internet has devolved into what might be considered thought leadership; I&
Federalist Paper #9
Since I accidentally skipped Federalist #9 (whoops), I might as well live-blog it for you.
FEDERALIST No. 9. The Union
Federalist Paper #10
This is the first of the Federalist Papers written by James Madison, and I knew that it was one of
I've written this song before
I began drafting Act II of MELISANDE this morning. I'll put the roughest draft of the first song
Writing out MELISANDE Act II
I changed the one part of the end-of-act number, otherwise known as "Tea Sequence (and Consequence)," that hadn&
The secret to learning 176 pages of music in five days
I finished the end-of-act number for MELISANDE, which is to say I drafted it to a point at which I
Do you need a budget?
I've got a new feature up at Vox titled "What if a budget isn’t the answer?
Brahms (just Brahms)
It's Friday, I'll have more to tell you about the MELISANDE end-of-act number soon, in the
The Beatitudes as they could be translated
First of all, yes I have stuck to my plan of extricating myself from the systemic internet (for lack of