Why yes I'm clearing out my inbox this week. Why yes I'm up to eighty rejection letters. Maybe I should throw a huge party to celebrate....

Welcome to this edition of "I'm posting another rejection letter due to wrapping up the last week of classes" and so here is another...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on April 24, 2014) So to recap, let’s say you were all excited that you and your librettist had...

Oh look, another month has gone by on the blog without a weekly blog post. That's okay. Anyway, I wanted to thank everyone for...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on April 17, 2014) So, like I was saying, after some time in the city I began to understand...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on April 10, 2014) In the spirit of creating my own artistic future, I may have decided to move...

(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on April 3, 2014) The other day a young composer friend of mine was eagerly awaiting a letter...

Ah, it has been a while, hasn't it? I actually have three (I think?) more rejection letters in my inbox, and I thought maybe I should...

As you have probably noticed, I am back to my old practice of posting pictures of cats as part of my "composer FAIL" series, mainly...

The Presidential Palace So…this isn't the fourth rejection letter I received while in Vietnam. I thought it was because I saw this...

Two weekends ago I had the wonderful opportunity to cancel classes to sit on a panel and give my composer/impresario expertise and have a...

I'm posting this for two reasons: (1) I'm tired of this rejection letter sitting in my bloated inbox and (2) I just drove on the I-75...

Part of me wanted to keep the genesis and construction of my newest fixed-format piece "Bifocals" a secret. It hasn't premiered yet (but...

Correction: I received four rejection letters during my Vietnam trip. Apparently one of them got lost in the oodles of email that flooded...

I'm fully convinced now that I'm not the best at blogging: I should be diligent and consistent with posts and, I don't know, write posts...

Ho Chi Minh once said, "If you are a capitalist, I will attack you with the North." Okay, maybe Uncle Ho never uttered those words, but I...

GUYS, guess what: my blog has been in existence for five years. I'm actually surprised I've kept it up this long, considering that most...

…since I moved far, far away from my hometown of Los Angeles (county), explaining to my parents that I was moving to Vermont (and...

This week I should probably chat about my lovely trip down to North Carolina where I saw white squirrels and waterfalls and Miller Asbill...