Last year, the San José Chamber Orchestra put up a large grand staff on the wall; audience members pasted round stickers on it to compose a new work. Barbara asked me if I’d write a new piece based on this “Crowd Sourced” music. I’m always ready for fun and a challenge. We decided to perform […]
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Name that Piano!
Every time I have new friends to our place, they want to see my studio. “How do you get the music into the computer? Do you write all the notes? All of them? Can you play all those instruments?” I have a video that explains everything! Here’s The Enterprise. I started calling my workstation The […]
Coming December 1st: The Mitten (El Mitón) recording from Navona Records
In September 2016, I went to Olomouc in the Czech Republic to record my children’s story The Mitten. You can read about it on my blog. I’m delighted that the CD will be available on Friday, December 1, 2017. The narration is in English and Spanish. I’m the English narrator, and Daniel Helfgot is the […]