Sparks & Wiry Cries

Next Saturday, the Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the third installment of its new music series In Context. The purpose of In Context is to present the works of living composers alongside ‘standard’ repertoire with the goal of showing continuity instead of contrast. Art song is especially well equipped to...    

I did a fundraiser recital this weekend for the Vancouver International Song Institute.  It  was hosted in someone’s house, so the audience was small though they were crowded into the living room.  My pianist, Terence Dawson, and I did a program consisting of contemporary English song.  Most people I know would run screaming

H. H. Holmes (aka Herman Mudgett) earned the distinction of being one of the first, if not the most prolific, of America’s serial killers. After having credited several murder victims to his account, Holmes opened a hotel in Chicago during the... 

On Tuesday November 6^th I woke up in Montpellier, France to be greeted by sad news.  Although he had reached the ripe old age of 103, I was still sadly taken aback by the death of the extraordinary composer Elliott Carter.  It seemed curious timing since I was in France to perform... 

New York based pianists Lachlan Glen and Jonathan Ware are part way into an ambitious project: to perform all of Schubert’s Songs in one season.  It takes a village to make something like this happen of course, and it turns out that the Schubert-Village is thriving.  Singers and pianists are