Where would I be without Joe Pisano? Still kicking around wondering if my stuff was good enough to be out there – that’s where. Joe has been in my corner from day 1 on this journey. He is my friend, my colleague, and my brother, and I really appreciate all he has done – which included calling me the other […]
If you have a minute (or 7 if you are going to listen to Pirates!), bump on over to FJH and check the new recordings of Pirates! and Irish Jig For Young Feet. Both songs are recorded by the Washington Winds, and you have the option of taking a look at the score page by page as you listen.
So if CNN would have been around when Mozart or Liszt died, would there be the kind of scrutiny today about their personal lives? I am not going to talk about his life, or his legacy because that should probably be left to someone who knows what happened and actually followed Michael Jackson. But the tragedy of this situation has […]
What a couple of weeks!!! It has been absolutely humbling to have so many performances of “American Visions” over the past few weeks – my sincere thanks to many friends and colleagues who made the piece a part of their spring concert. My thanks to Drew Fennell and the River City Youth Brass Band for their world debut performance of […]
On the horizon – Pirates! (a 2009 J.W.Pepper’s Editor’s Choice) and Irish Jig for Young Feet will be available this summer from FJH Music. Irish Jig for Young Feet is a delightful little 6/8 jig with some call and response between the percussionists and the winds players (and their feet!). My thanks goes out to Tad Greig who was the […]
