This season, I will be continuing my interests in humanistic music and theatrical genres. Each of my threads of interest – opera, silent film, Greco-Roman antiquity, and folk music – grows a little longer in the coming months.
More events will be added as they are confirmed.
September 2011
Saturday, Sept. 3 1:00 PM
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (new chamber opera in one act)
Reading of selected scenes
Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival
Millennium Stage South
The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
Program of original piano scores for silent film on the ancient world, including two versions of Ben-Hur. Evening program for Re-Creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity, an academic conference which I am co-organzing with Robert Ketterer and Greg Hand of the University of Iowa
Englert Theater, Iowa City, IA
Greece in Silent Cinema
Program of original piano scores for silent films on Greek antiquity from the collection of the Library of Congress. Co-presenter Rob Stone, Moving Image Curator, LOC
Sponsored by the Cathdral School of New York and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL Lincoln Center, New York City
Alexandria Film Festival
Original organ score for a silent film The General (starring Buster Keaton)
George Washington Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, VA
Clash of the Wolves (silent film with Rin-Tin-Tin)
Premiere of organ version of my original piano score
American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
Songs of Old CUA: A Musical Revue Special event for Catholic University’s 125th anniversary
Co-organized with Maurice Saylor, in collaboration with the divisions of Musical Theater, Wind Ensemble, and CUA faculty and students.
Pryzbyla Center Great Room
"Trailer for Songs of Old CUA"
March 2012
Saturday, Mar. 10 7:30 PM
Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre
Culpeper, VA. THE PATSY (King Vidor, 1928)
Cantate Chamber Singers: Great Minds
St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD. Cantate Chamber Singers presents "GREAT MINDS," music by Friedrich Nietzsche (yes, the philosopher!), Dallapiccola, Holst, Gavin Bryars, Eric Whitacre, and the winner of the Cantate Young Composers Competition. I am performing a Nietzsche piano work and conducting Eric Whitacre's Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine.
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Great Noise Ensemble presents the premiere of my Double Concerto, for violin and guitar. Andrea Vercoe, violin; Max Zuckerman, guitar; David Vickerman, conductor.
Premiere of new choral and instrumental score for The Wind (1928 film starring Lillian Gish)
This score, commissioned by the Cantate Chamber Singers (Gisele Becker, Music Director) as composer in residence, is written for Cantate’s 32-voice chorus joined by a 9-piece insrtumental ensemble, including the AFI Silver’s Allen theater organ.
Co-presented by Cantate and AFI
American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
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