I’ve just finished John Robertson’s commission, a five-minute work for piano, to be premiered next year on his junior piano recital.  This is the first in a series of pieces comprising an extended set for piano entitled ”Book of Hours”; each piece will represent an hour of the day.  John is a very good pianist who […]

 
The classical music industry is doing just fine, thank you.
 
It seems as if for the past few years all we’ve heard from music critics and culture-promoting groups has been the same old doom and gloom story: audiences are aging, attendance is declining, orchestras are shutting down, young people don’t care about good music anymore.  And […]