finally got everything worked out here in my new pad - yesterday i arrived for my second boston run - this time i planned a longer stay so i can have some unscheduled time to enjoy my new 'hood and take in the beautiful late-fall somerville vibe.

lately i have been having great, long, luxurious chats with various of my composer colleagues from all of the music schools and universities here, talking about ways to organize ourselves so that there is as much city-wide composerly community as possible. today i had lunch with NEC's latest faculty addition, kati agocs, an old friend from when she was at juilliard (i had her doctoral 'coming-out' party at my apt!), and last night i had dinner with keeril makan, MIT's recent addition, who is spending this year soaking up the kingly benefits of the coveted rome prize. he's in 'town' (meaning: the USA) briefly to enjoy the world premiere of his new chamber orchestra piece at zankel hall. also on the docket for dec 5: his concerto for violin and viola with the MIT orchestra - information here - i'll be there! it should be a great night!

tomorrow we begin rehearsals for the nov 14 concert, 'concertos for strings and orchestra.' it will be great to see my old BMOP buddies Elliott Schwartz and Ken Ueno again, and always a pleasure to spend time in the company of maestro schoenberg. perhaps he'll grace us with his presence in some indefinable way as well. but before the rehearsal i will spend the morning with teaching interns at the boston arts academy, giving them some ideas about how to use cross-disciplinary teaching methods in the classroom while teaching core curriculum subjects, like math and history. i love that stuff :)