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Pianist Jeffrey Jacob records Fiddlins’ -

 “Fiddlins’ is one of the finest works for piano that I’ve heard in years.”

     California pianist Jeffrey Jacob, an ambitious and productive performer of recent music for piano, recently completed the recording of Fiddlins’, my sonata on Appalachian fiddle tunes (Lil’ Liza Jane, Ev’ry Night When the Sun Goes Down, Cluck Old Hen, The Nightingale, and Lil’Sally Goodin’/Old Joe Clark).  You can hear and purchase Jeffrey’s performance here and visit his website here.  Fiddlins’ is the opening track on Volume 26 of his series Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano. Yes, Volume 26 - Jeffrey is nothing if not productive.  I am pleased and proud to have Fiddlins’ chosen for such a fine performance in the midst of such a busy schedule.  Thank You Dr. Jacobs!

Dale Tsang premieres Quantum Entanglement

     I am exceptionally enthused about the premiere of this new work for piano in which the performer speaks the lines of a poem as the surrounding music seeks to illustrate it - a bit like a song without singing.  The poem Quantum Entanglement, by my dear friend and frequent collaborator Keller Cushing Freeman, is a what-might-have-been musing upon a relationship between two long-ago lovers and the mysterious thread of attachment that seems to persist in spite of many years and miles of separation and silence. The pianist is the wonderful Dale Tsang, allied with the San Francisco-based group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT).  Dale gave a marvelous first performance February 22nd in Berkeley (video here), and a second performance in San Francisco March 2nd (here, at 1:09:50). Last year Dale gave a terrific rendering of Fiddlins’, which you can listen to here (at 1:10:35).  Thank You Dr. Tsang!

New songs and song cycles

issued by North Star Music

New works for flute and piano

issued by Alfred Music