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2023-2024 Performances
2020-2021 Update
As COVID-19 hit and the music world largely shifted to the virtual arena, I recorded a new, three-part, socially-distanced series of “What Makes it Great?” programs entitled “Beethoven, the Pandemic and the Power of Connection” filmed in New York City’s Merkin Hall with the Kaufman Music Center.
I also created
- Livestream programs for the Caramoor Festival as well as Stanford Live;
- Virtual lectures for groups ranging from CEOs in Istanbul and Dubai, to
therapists at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference; - Virtual book-club events for the Celebrity Series of Boston;
and taught a 7-week online course, “Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim” for the Thurnauer School of Music of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. I then reworked the course for Kaufman Music Center in New York and added a new, live-streamed program on the music of Stephen Sondheim.
A summer 2020 highlight
was a collaboration with the innovative dance group Pilobolus. I helped curate their remarkable, live, car-safari-experience-in-the woods for their Five Senses Festival in Washington Connecticut. In addition to performing in the event, I composed a new choral work based on a Rumi text sung live and socially distanced by the Litchfield County Choral Union.
While composing the Rumi choral work, I also worked intensively on a new orchestral/choral work based on inter-generational immigrant stories called We Came to America. I previewed parts of the work on a special 2-hour evening on WWFM radio while also analyzing music ranging from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony to Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow.”