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.