100 Notes of Toy Piano

Yesterday (June 2019) I got an email from composer/keyboard player David Bohn that my submission to his call for scores was accepted. A friend found the call on ComposerSite (http://composerssite.com/content/toy-piano-100-project) and he thought it would entertain me. It was for newly composed 100-note compositions for toy piano. I had fun improvising a bit, and I   Read More...

Composing “Songs from a Quaker Heart”

What fun to hear the rehearsal of “Songs from a Quaker Heart” last night. This new music SATB chorus and piano is getting its premiere by the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, who commissioned it. The poems are by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, a fellow resident of Lexington, MA. So many of Marian’s poems are direct observation of   Read More...