A Little Housekeeping

NaBloPoMo Day 27!
I found out recently that the audio hosting site I had been using isn’t working anymore. It might come back at some point, but for the moment there are licensing issues to deal with. It’s too bad, because I was hosting my own music with them, so licensing really wasn’t an issue for [...]

A Musical Interlude

NaBloPoMo Day 15!
The conclusion to my little series on criticism continues to brew, so I thought in the meantime I’d post some Actual Music. Have you ever heard the quote, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”? I think I had first heard it attributed to Laurie Anderson, but apparently it’s one of those [...]

Piccolo’s Collected Works, vol. 1!

NaBloPoMo Day 5! (Happy Cinco de Mayo! )
It probably won’t come as a surprise that I have a musical cat. His name is Piccolo, after all, and he was raised in a musical household. I knew someone once who claimed that she could not practice her guitar or recorder because her kitties couldn’t tolerate [...]

Keyboards of the World, vol. 3!

NaBloPoMo Day 4!
A couple of pianos from my San Diego whirlwind Theremin Concerto première tour didn’t make it into my previous KOTW post, because I shot them with my cell phone camera and hadn’t yet transferred them to the computer.
Here they are in all their lo-res glory — 2 shots of the piano at the [...]

New Tabs for your Clicking Pleasure!

I direct your attention to the top of the page, where you’ll find two new tabs to click on!
Listen to This! is a collection of the original pieces that I’ve posted on the blog (or elsewhere on these vast wide internets) before, conveniently corralled so you can listen to them anytime.

The Fascinating Life of a [...]

Theremin Concerto Media Wrap-up!

Well, here I am back home in Michigan, but I’m still basking in the glow of last week’s excitement. The three performances of the Theremin Concerto went very well, and the audience response was fantastic! So many people came up to me afterwards and told me how much they enjoyed it — a few even [...]

Greetings, CBC listeners!

O Canada!

I recently sent a link to this blog to Tom Allen, who hosts the morning show Music and Company on CBC Radio 2. McDoc and I really enjoy his witty, off-the-wall commentary and funny stories he tells in between classical pieces. In fact, my clock radio is tuned to CBC 2, so I wake [...]

Theremin Concerto Sneak Preview!

The première of my Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra (”Theremin Concerto” for short) by Theremin player Scott Paulson and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra is exactly 2 weeks from today! So I thought this would be a good time to post a little excerpt from my not-quite-bona-fide, deep-fried, naugahyde, MIDI-fied version (with apologies) …which [...]

The Fascinating Life of a Music Copyist, Part 4

Thus far we’ve concerned ourselves with the preparation of a pretty score, a thing of beauty that will be a joy forever, suitable for publication as a coffee-table book, not to mention indispensable to the conductor. Now, what about the people who really matter, the lifeblood, heart and soul, and worker bees of the orchestra [...]

Your Questions Answered, vol. 1

Alto2 asks:
Um, Lucy, can you please ’splain what is a THEREMIN??? Why is it being featured on this program?
How remiss of me not to explain that important detail! I’m gonna answer these questions in reverse order, though, because the answer to #2 is short and sweet:
Why Theremin? Why not?
More seriously, though [...]