Work continues on A HISTORY OF SENSATION,
which I began in
1990 at the Macdowell Colony and have been working on ever since. the latest
segment, ONOYOKONO, is a reflection on language and confusion.
Two new arrangements of Brazilian songs
(SEU SOU SABIA by
Caetano Veloso and AGUAS DA MARÇO by A.C. Jobim) have been released on SUENOS
DE AMOR, by Heidi Grant Murphy, Auréole and guests on Koch International
Classics.
ODD PRELUDES has been recorded by Jonathan
Helton and
Barbara Gonzales-Palmer and will be released in the not-too-distant future, on
Centaur Records.
PREMIERED: The Center for Experimental
Theater at Vassar
College presented OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, in conjunction with Oxford University
Press publication of a new translation by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger;
musical score and direction by Jonathan Elliott with funding provided by the
Mellon Foundation (April 20, 2007).
FIELD MUSIC: ASH, for violin and cello,
premiered on
February 5, 2007, at Saint Ann's First Monday Concerts, with Alexis Sykes and
Amy Kim, violin and cello. NEW WORK
IN PROGRESS: "East From West," a commission
for
the Grace & Spiritus Chorale (James Busby, conductor), and the great tabla
master Samir Chatterjee, two `celli and vibraphone. Funding is provided with a
grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. A presentation of
the piece, with live excerpts, was held on June 4 at the Brooklyn Historical
Society. The premiere will take place in January 2009.
FIELD MUSIC: ASH (the original version
for alto saxophone
and `cello) will be premiered on February 20 in Gainesville, Florida. Saxophonist
Jonathan Helton and renowned `cellist Steven Thomas will perform the piece on a
European tour this coming November. Concerts will take place in Bordeaux, Marseilles,
Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam, with other cities to be added.
HOMMAGE À B.B. will be performed at
the Monadnock Music
Festival in Peterborough, NH) in August by the stellar trio of soprano Ilana
Davidson, flutist Laura Gilbert, and violist Jonathan Bagg on August 14-15.
IN THE WORKS:an orchestral version of "Hommage à B.B."
should be finished by the end of the summer.