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•mutagenesis continues to get play-- yay! It was programmed on Susan Schwaegler's facutly recital (with piano stud Rob Elfline!) at Augustana College on September 25 (alongside Dark Wind by John Luther Adams, so at least I'm in good company). Also, just got to hear Zeitgeist's studio recording of the work-- really really pleased with how it sounds, and can't wait to let people know once it's commercially available!
(September 2008)

• Hope you were able to attend Zeitgeist's April 24 concert (part of the St. Paul Arts Crawl - always an awesome time!) when they again presented mutagenesis. Commissioned by the ensemble for their 30th anniversary last June, the piece was performed along with works by Alex Shapiro, Ethan Wickman, Chris Gable, and Janika Vandervelde.
(April 2008)

• I love ASCAP. I really do. Royalty checks arrive, and it's like Emergency Christmas has come even earlier than expected. And yet...

Yesterday's mail contained something both thrilling and bewildering. As it happens, I am now an "Internationally Performed Composer", as apparently White Oak: Fantasia on 'America the Beautiful' was presented in Venezuela (officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) back in 2004. I have no doubt the score was... borrowed... from the website, back when full PDFs were available instead of sample pages. Which is fine, I'm just glad to have people playing my music. And this would all be fairly consistent with my ASCAP interface to date, were it not for the fact that said royalty payment is, in the interest of transparency, somewhere in the neighborhood of $.42. (Please note the small dot placed carefully between the dollar sign and the numeral four.)

Not being one to complain (overmuch), I've decided that Douglas Adams is speaking to me from beyond, reminding me to just be glad I can now bandy about the term "International" at cocktail parties. Which I will.
(February 18, 2009)

• Hope you were able to attend one of Zeitgeist's "Playing it Close to Home" concerts in February '09-- they did an amazing job again playing mutagenesis. Commissioned by the ensemble for their 30th anniversary this past June, the piece was performed along with works by Jeffrey Brooks, Libby Larsen, Carei Thomas, and Janika Vandervelde. Plans are currently underway to record the work, and I'll be sure to let you know once it's available.
(February 15, 2009)

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