Or my favorite forgotten prog rock band.
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Or my favorite forgotten prog rock band.
Bombogenesis is my favorite obscure Tolkien character.
Not into acoustics or phonetics so much, are ya, Spelling Bee…
2016 highlight: working with Stewart Copeland as keyboardist for his opera “The Cask of Amontillado”
Nobel Appeasement Prize
This Wednesday, January 14th at 7:30 pm! Extremely psyched for my guest artist recital at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, featuring music by Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Melinda Wagner, David Chaillou, Herbie Nichols, McCoy Tyner, and Robert Paterson (sorry they misspelled it, Rob!)
LGA✈️DEN (Limitless Gefilte Albacore✈️Dank Edibles Nearby)
2 minute excerpt of “Finale”, from Saint-Saëns’s Album, Op. 72. I’m performing this and works of Liszt, David Chaillou, Herbie Nichols, Rob Paterson, Melinda Wagner, and McCoy Tyner at the University of Denver on Wednesday, January 14th, at 7:30pm!
BREAKING: The Department of Justice has been renamed the Department of Wrath
sundayguardianlive.com/news/full-wr...
So I guess it’s Venezuela that will become our 51st state. Wait for your turn, Canada and Greenland.
What about smooth, creamy, soothing individualism?
www.foxnews.com/video/638715...
$400 million on the Stranger Things finale and it looks like this.
As a condition of French citizenship, either the Clooneys must change the spelling of their surname to “Cluny”, or the Cluny Museum in Paris must be renamed the “Clooney Museum.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...
2025, you’ve been redacted.
6 Bartók String Quartets
5 Beethoven Cello Sonatas
4 Voice Types (plus numerous subcategories)
3 Piano Pedals
2 Berg Operas
1 Heavily Used iPad
And Bruckner’s Symphony No. Zero
On the 12th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
12 Transcendental Études
11 Pipers playing Varèse’s “Density 21.5”
10 Mahler Symphonies
9 Beethoven, Dvorák, Vaughan Williams, etc. etc. Symphonies, and Basically Mahler Too
8 Hours of Sleep
7 Notes in the Diatonic Scale
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Why is Aslan on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Released today! My solo piano single of my own “Proletariat Syncopations”, available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and many other locales.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy70...
My take on Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time Is Here”. Good tidings of great joy to all.
#Christmas #piano #jazz
Best misspelling of a composer's name encountered on a paper: Henry Cowbell. #DontFearTheBanshee
In the years following Stalin's death, the Soviet leadership began to remove his name from buildings. From 1953 and ending in 1961, the Lenin Mausoleum was the “Lenin and Stalin Mausoleum”. The process famously came to be known as “De-Stalinization.”
#KennedyCenter
Boomers: The Day of the Jackal
Gen X: The Day After
Millenials: The Day After Tomorrow
Gen Z: Happy Death Day
Formidable icicles outside the house this morning. My head/torso and hand for scale. Roslyn Village Historic District, NY. Soundtrack: my recording of Vincent Persichetti’s Sonata No. 1.
“Wo ist das Pizzaschneider?”
Excerpt of my own arrangement/improvisation on Chick Corea's "Spain", recorded in concert July 6, 2025, Chiesa dell’Addolorata, Acqui Terme, Italy, as part of the Interharmony International Music Festival.
Glorious excess of holiday whimsy at Oscar Wilde, NYC (W. 27th in NoMad)
Fantastic semester-end studio class with my @princeton.edu piano students! Wonderful, wide-ranging program, ending with Alkan’s colossal and hypervirtuosic Le Festin d’Ésope.
#Princeton #piano #music #virtuosity #artistry
Great recording session at Raccoon Castle East (aka my home studio) with the brilliant Joseph Martin Waters! The menu included my new solo piece “Proletariat Syncopations”, and Joe’s new solo piece “Cleansing” (inspired by Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Stevie Wonder) for imminent release -stay tuned!
Had a blast performing last night at the Ellington Room in Manhattan Plaza, including the premiere of my own “Proletariat Syncopations”, as well as killer ragtime/stride-influenced pieces by Dan Cooper and Joseph Martin Waters, on a show called Rag Times, part of the Composers Concordance series.
Besides my own Proletariat Syncopations, I’ll be performing another ragtime-influenced piano piece by Dan Cooper called “Precariat”, which is a portmanteau of “precarious” and “proletariat.” Concert this Friday Dec. 5 @ the Ellington Room, Manhattan Plaza:
www.livemusicproject.org/events/16536...
