we're diving into my last week here as BMOP's CIR (sniff...) and so so many things are happening around here! before i launch into reports on the events of this week - rehearsals for this friday's concert, prepations for tonight's special extra club concert (which will be the curating debut of some members of the new composers advocacy group i will be launching this week, the Score Board!), and the premiere and recording of my huge piece In medias res, which takes material from several of the synopses i wrote over these past 3 years and weaves it all together - i need to catch you all up on a very eventful april!

so - speaking of synopses, april saw the premiere of the last one of these little pieces, Synopsis #15: Two Days After You Left I...   here is ina zdorovetchi at the club cafe, where she premiered it on a club cafe concert dedicated almost entirely to synopses - a kind of retrospective:



the concert was a veritable synopsis-fest! here are some of the other players, many of whom have become some of my most cherished boston friends :) here's bob schulz playing "It Takes One to Know One:"



charles dimmick playing "Where's the Guy With the Directions?:"



rachel braude playing "Most Rumors About Him Are True:"



michael norsworthy playing "What I Did Over Summer Vacation:"



sarah brady playing "I Think We Should Tell Her:"



and terry everson playing "He Figures Out What Clouds Mean:"



in answer to the many of you who have asked me over the years if the Synopses series was inspired by Berio's Sequenzas, i performed his crazy Sequenza III for voice at this concert too! that was quite an adventure, requiring a broad range of extreme emotional shifts. the many faces of sequenza III!!!



meanwhile i was joined onstage by another important BMOP friend, without whom none of these things would ever have been possible - ED catherine stephan:



(i think she was in the process of making me blush...)

and also, the first MC appearance of robert kirzinger, who is one of the Charter Members of our new composers group, the Score Board. in fact, he will be taking the stage tonight, along with some other composer colleagues, while i sit at a table and eat a salad :)



see some of you tonight! more here soon as this epic week unfolds.