A voluptuous little piece, with a rolling left hand.

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“H,” in German, is the name for B natural, thus allowing Bach to spell his name as B — A — C — B natural.  I expanded Bach’s musical signature for this canon.

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I’ve long been fascinated by the Latin gibberish used to fill in dummy texts. I considered setting it; then concocted this musical equivalent. I assigned a four-pitch diatonic chord to each letter, then transcribed the result.

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All of us who write music hear music in dreams.  I don’t know what to make of it.  Is it inspiration, brain garbage, cryptamnesia?  I write it down when I awake.  Here’s one of them.  

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I’m always interested in music written by writers.  And so, when I learned that Robert Louis Stevenson had written music for flageolet, I had to seek it out.  And I had to harmonize it.

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Another crab canon, with some pungent dissonances.  Enjoy!

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I usually perform this song on the uke, preferably with viola obbligato; but here’s the first and fifth verses, and a bit of the piano version. I sit by the window, my room’s nice and dark. I gaze at the sky and the clouds. Perhaps I should go for a walk in the park And […]

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A sort of chorale, written while unwinding from performances in a vaudeville festival in Maine.

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I wrote this for a performance in Everett, Washington, back in 2001.  It was originally meant for theater organ, but I ended up playing it on the piano.  And here’s an excerpt.

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Anne Shapiro, Jennifer Duffy (now Perez) and Doug Skinner pose in NYC’s meat packing district, back when they still packed meat there.

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