For a few months I've been using Leonardo AI to create images of "musical instruments." I provide a prompt that includes something about...

San José Chamber Orchestra has a concert each year to mark the end of the old and the start of the new. Held at 3:00 PM, it provides...

Over a year ago I finished an orchestral composition that I'd worked on for a few years—Transition. (See Drawing the Double Bar Line.) To...

Since the beginning of October I've been writing music using Sptitfire audio modules. (See At Sea: Composing Music While Sailing to...

Tauck promised a trip full of music on its Musial Magic along the Blue Danube River Cruise, and it delivered. All the of the programs...

The day began ended with palace visits, starting with the excessive Schönbrunn Palace and ending with the more humble Palais Kinsky. The...

After an over night sailing from Budapest, I woke up in Bratislava, Slovakia. Our resident soprano Brittany gave a lecture on vocal...

Béla Bartók needed a quiet environment to compose. From April 1932 to October 1940 he found solace in a house that used to be in the...

Today was a treat for both eyes and ears. We toured two spectacular music facilities—the Budapest Opera House and the Liszt Ferenc...

Now that I've declared my piece, Transitions, "finished", I am solidly in the tweaking phase. I brought each section as audio files into...

The Opera San Jose production of Carmen was so wonderful, that I decided to see it a second time. The first time I attended a matinee,...

Since March 2020, I've been to very few concerts of live music. There is nothing like sitting in an audience and knowing that the...

One of the things that characterized 2020 was the cancellation of musical performances and events. At first, most of us thought...

In November 2019, I was a panelist at King’s College London, for an event about the conductor Constantin Silvestri. I showed a few...

We spent Christmas Eve at Treehouse Tavern listening to music and eating an assortment of hors d’oeuvres. Treehouse Tavern is a 180...

Last year, a friend suggested that I join ASMAC, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. I was hesitant. Although I...

I can’t remember the last time that I attended a choral concert. All of the chorus works I’ve heard in recent years have been part of an...

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->