On March 29th, The Crossing will release their newest album on Navona Records entitled, "It is time." The recording features my piece, Breath, with poetry by Philip Levine. The Crossing commissioned the work last year and gave it an incredible premiere last summer. The Crossing lend their brilliant musicianship to several other new works: the compositions of David Shapiro, Kile Smith, Frank Havrøy, Erhard Karkoschka and Kristen Broberg. Click the CD to pre-order.

ARCO has come and gone, as all things...but I thought I should discuss it before moving all the scores, files, notes and audio onto an external hard drive and tossing it into my closet. It was 4 months of my life, which had its fruition in an hour-long performance, and now I'm on to other things. That's the way it should be I suppose.

First off, many thanks to all who made the concert a success. There will be audio and video footage of Sympho soon, featuring this particular performance.

A while back the Park Avenue Armory in NYC commissioned my friend and collaborator, Paul Haas, to create a new work for Sympho to premiere in the space in February of this year. It was the first commission the Armory has ever made and the goal was to create something highly site-specific. Paul Haas and I met sometime in August (I think) to discuss the shape and overall gist of this work. The folks at the Armory offered us a room with which to work, a tour of the building and drill hall, and an historical presentation of the Armory – its reasons for being built, its "ghost stories" so to speak, its history within the performing arts community....

Check back soon for a much more detailed entry on this piece.