Well, the holiday weekend is probably about as good a time as I’ll find to update this blog, since I’ve been preoccupied with other activities (mainly teaching-related) for the last several weeks (and will remain so for the next couple of months). Happily, I haven’t been idle: here are three reviews that attest to that fact. The first, of the Boston Symphony giving an invigorating performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony is here; the second, of the BSO playing an all-20th century program (!) of Ravel, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich is here; finally, my second-ever book review can be accessed here (my first ever – written, at least – is being published next month in “Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association”; I’ll send info out on that as soon as it’s available). This coming weekend will also be busy: Kurt Masur conducts Beethoven at Symphony Hall; the Lutoslawski Cello Concerto will be making its way around the Boston area (with the Boston Philharmonic); and A Far Cry is playing John Adams’s “Shaker Loops” (which turns 35 this year – and I just realized that it predates me by only a couple of years. Yikes). At any rate, I’m looking forward to it. Oh, and for the last two weekends the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic has performed my piece, “Diversions” (sorry D.C. folks – I realize now that I should have alerted you to this, but, frankly, I’ve been rather overwhelmed with busy-ness for the last few weeks. My error). My tunes are finally making their way out of the Northeast and into the world!
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