2025 Thoughts
✦ April
I was wrong about Cantamus
One of the best reasons to marry the smartest person you know is that this person may turn out to
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #12
We're having our first sing-through for MELISANDE on Friday (we're just singing through two of the
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
What have we learned?
I was thinking the other day, because Larry and I were watching Jerry Springer: The Opera –
which was his idea,
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #11
I have been thinking about maps, lately, in a way that suggests I am about to come up with a
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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&
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #9
Since I accidentally skipped Federalist #9 (whoops), I might as well live-blog it for you.
FEDERALIST No. 9. The Union
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Federalist Paper #10
This is the first of the Federalist Papers written by James Madison, and I knew that it was one of
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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&
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
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
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Do you need a budget?
I've got a new feature up at Vox titled "What if a budget isn’t the answer?
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Brahms (just Brahms)
It's Friday, I'll have more to tell you about the MELISANDE end-of-act number soon, in the