Release

I’m very happy to announce that today is the official release date for my first all-orchestral record on Naxos (pictured above left.)   The album is by Washington’s Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, that nimbler ensemble of the National Symphony which in many ways launched my career.  Collaborating with the writer (here a narrator) Andrew Sullivan; soprano Emily Pulley (Lysistrata in Houston and New York;) and the harpist Dotian Levalier (who introduced Four Angels with Leonard Slatkin and NSO,) Eclipse, under the baton of the infinitely sensitive Sylvia Alimena, recorded four pieces—two of which she commissioned and introduced, all of which are described here—in May 2007.  I won’t attempt to be impartial about the music, but I will express my wonder and gratitude for the care and commitment with which it was performed, recorded, and mixed; any composer would be both emboldened  and humbled by such artistry.