WMV Music Web Log

Here is my translation of the titles of Schumann's Kinderscenen:
Kinderscenen, Op. 15 Robert Schumann
Foreign Lands & People
Funny Story
Game
Weeping
Perfectly Happy
Important Occasion
Daydreaming
At the Hearth
Sir Broom-Horse
Almost Too Serious
Ghost Stories
Falling Asleep
The Poet Speaks

(You can hear my recent performance of these as mp3s)

Me at Galilee Lutheran Church. (That's Carl Banner, pianist, for all you search engines out there...) All recent photos on this blog are by artist Marilyn Banner.

Violinist Linda Smith. For some reason she looked very serious on this gig.

All I have of composer Sidney Bailin is the back of his head, with his wife Heike at the Czech Embassy in October.

Composer Maurice Saylor. Doesn't he remind you of Charles Baudelaire in this picture?

Composer Alexandra Gardner - at the performance of her beautiful quartet "Crows". All the photos of the composers at this event are out of focus - what does that mean? They are shy and avoid the limelight? Or Marilyn just couldn't catch them standing still?

At the Sitar Center; I don't know who these people are, but I probably should! They look interested and interesting.

Audience members at the Sitar Center. From her profile, it looks like Sharron Caplan on the right.

Elizabeth Kluegel, soprano. She really does have a beautiful voice. You know, the kind of voice that when you hear it right next to you, you want to turn around and say, "Marry me!"

Joel Borelli-Boudreau - he will be premiering Larry Moss' Dickinson Songs with Gary Poster in February. An all around great musician!

Blair Goins - you just can't take a bad picture of that guy!

The alto player is the chairman of the board.

Jeff Peterson doing his thing in the Jezek. The audience went berserk.

Harold Summey and Davy DeArmond - these guys are amazing!

Jodi Beder & Zizi!

Jodi Beder and Zizi. They performed "The Which", improvisation against digital loops, on a ground from Donovan's "Season of the Witch". The audience loved it.

Here's Ben, really wailing, and yes that's a bari sax! He says he's got some stuff for us to do together, just bari and piano.

And here is the singer, Jeffery Peterson. He was a wild man in the Jezek! Behind him is Joel Borelli-Boudreau, with trombone and a rack full of mutes.

Marilyn got some great pictures from the Sitar Center concert last Sunday. Here are Davy DeArmond, Harold Summey, Rhonda, & Ben Redwine playing Morton or Jezek. This was a red hot band!

My name in lights!

Played solo program last night - it was good! About 60 in the audience, mostly parishioners, but Rix and Elizabeth showed up, which was very nice. Standing ovation! Mar and I celebrated over black russians at the Royal Mile. And I even made some money (when was the last time THAT happened?). Pastor Hank Simon pointed out that Joplin's Cascades Rag was written for the 1904 World's Fair in our hometown, St. Louis. And there was a fountain built in Forest Park called the Cascades.

Found a nice blog comment from June 27 (right after the last Atlas concert):

"Attended a fun concert by Washington Musica Viva on Sunday....a mix of classical and jazz from DC composers past and present. WMV performances always feel like a party - as more concerts should!"

(from composer Alexandra Gardner's blog, now transferred to her website http://www.jigsawmusic.org/bookofdays.htm)

We are preparing Alex's quartet "Crows" for next Sunday. I have been wanting to perform Crows for almost 7 years! Since I heard a tape of it at a conference in NY. Well, it took awhile to get it together. I listened to it through my new ipod at Bethany beach a couple of weeks ago, accompanied by breakers - perfect!

Amazing article about jazz and the violin (no, not that violin):

http://www.jonroseweb.com/c_articles_stringsville.html

(Courtesy of Charley Gerard)