So, a couple exciting things to announce.
First, if you are in the Pittsburgh area at all, Clocks in Motion will be performing at the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music on 25 May at 5pm at the New Hazlett Theater. Duo Scordatura and the East Liberty Community Engagement Orchestra will also be performing. The ELCEO will be performing excerpts from The Rite of Spring, arranged for children’s orchestra by F. Garcia-De Castro, and the rest of the concert features Cage’s Third Construction, Dave Alcorn’s Four Minatures (world premiere), and my very own Percussion Duo.
It’s all terribly exciting, of course. Throughout these past six months or so, my music seems to be slowly making its way eastward, from Madison to Interlochen and now to Pittsburgh. So, that’s nice!
Looking farther into the eventual path of time’s arrow, I am happy to announce that I will continue this eastward trend to attend the Bennington Chamber Music Conference in Vermont as one of three composition fellows, joining Ben Stonaker and Liza White. And we three will be joining composers-in-residence Ted Hearne, Sean Shepherd, and Laura Schwendinger, and senior composer-in-residence Donald Crockett. Sadly, our times won’t overlap, but I will have the pleasure of working with Laura Schwendinger and Donald Crockett for week 3 of the festival, 10-17 August 2014. I’m currently working on a wind quintet, for which I haven’t written in some years now.
I’ve never been to the New England area, so this is just an absolutely fantastic way to finally become acquainted with a region of the world that has long fascinated me.
Now I just need to finish that wind quintet…
Dr. Lang – It seems unreal sometimes that you are my incredible son. Where did that brain come from?
Oh, and Dr. Lang when are you coming home to help me design my garden?