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Vocabulaire

August 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Vocabulaire

I trot out some French, in an excerpt from a White Knuckle Sandwich slide show.

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Stevenson at the Flageolet

August 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Stevenson at the Flageolet

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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Life’s Little Sorrows

August 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Life’s Little Sorrows

Another crab canon, with some pungent dissonances.  Enjoy!

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My Mistake

August 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Mistake

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 mingle a bit with the crowds.

Tomorrow’s my birthday; I’ll go the whole hog:
I’ll lie in the tub with some cake.
I think I’ve forgotten the name of my dog,
And that’s where I made my mistake.

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Index Cards (19)

August 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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Clot

August 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Clot

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

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Gilding the Pyrite

August 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Gilding the Pyrite

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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White Knuckle Sandwich (3)

August 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on White Knuckle Sandwich (3)

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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White Knuckle Sandwich (2)

August 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on White Knuckle Sandwich (2)

The White Knuckle Sandwich building, drawn here for a postcard for a gig at the Fez, in NYC.  And here it is in color, for a slide show from our performance at the Kitchen, Millennial Mouthful.


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Index Cards (18)

August 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment

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