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Insects Have Taken Santa’s Place

December 24th, 2013 · Comments Off on Insects Have Taken Santa’s Place

I wrote this for the Holiday Recording Party, which Meg Reichardt organizes every year in Brooklyn.  You can hear it over here; joining me are Doug Roesch on guitar and Ralph Hamperian on tuba. Poor little Jim and May!  I hope your holidays are better than theirs.

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It’s Time For a Treat

September 5th, 2013 · 5 Comments

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Item

July 14th, 2013 · Comments Off on Item

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I’m Still Bitter

June 19th, 2013 · 4 Comments

But then, who isn’t?

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The Imponderable Pillar of Worlds

September 5th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Imponderable Pillar of Worlds

A round on an epigram from Benjamin De Casseres.

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Invisible Lines

December 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments

I drew this in my notebook at school, rather than listen to the teacher.  I think it was in middle school — then, of course, called junior high.  

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The Inchworm

August 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Inchworm

Do you want to be like the inchworm?  We have a rather glum song here, as befits the subject. The inchworm’s life is mild and meek; His prospects look a little bleak. All day he creeps, and creeps, and creeps, And creeps, and creeps, and then he sleeps. When morning comes, he wakes and eats […]

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Infix

August 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Infix

An insistent number, written as I was enjoying a new piano.

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Ineffervescence

August 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

This is the only piece I ever wrote, or ever will write, in Beggs, Oklahoma.

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It All Went Pfft

July 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on It All Went Pfft

2006 was a bad year for me.  I commented on it in this piano piece, in which a melancholy theme deteriorates.

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