Greetings everyone!
I was intentionally absent from the blog-o-sphere when Zheng and I took a much-needed vacation to the San Francisco Bay Area. Photos forthcoming. We had an amazing time exploring that time. I had not returned since my summer at Merola (2007!) so it was amazing to be back there.
I’m now hard at work on a project involving the musical history of Darmstadt, Germany along with my current position and relationships at UNM. The project is to present solo piano works of current UNM composers and their pieces, alongside pair-able German works in the common repertoire (occasional Bach or Brahms) or with a composer who was at Darmstadt during the initial years of the summer course (Berio, Babbitt, Messiaen).
I have my first “outing” of some of the pieces this coming Thursday and Saturday, for a house concert (visit this post if you haven’t seen it before).
I have downtime this summer as well - so the summer is some playing and some resting.
Semi-simple.
PHOTO: The opening to Milton Babbitt’s “Semi-Simple Variations.”
