DUBLIN – Henry David Thoreau’s wonderful dictum:
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
will have to be modernized:
My life has been the blog I would have writ,
But I could not both live and update it.
I’ve been living rather than blogging, but I can pause long enough to announce that I will be performing Custer and Sitting Bull – perhaps for the last time ever, if I have anything to say about it – tomorrow night at 8 in the Printing Room at Trinity College in Dublin. Ireland. Along with a couple of other out-of-tune pieces.
Thanks to those who’ve been waiting desperately for audio documentation of my piano concerto Sunken City. I’m still waiting for the same thing, and as soon as I have it, you’ll have it.
Now to go check out Irish sushi. Who knew?
If you have the chance, be sure to drop by the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin, on Fishamble Street. There’s a lot of intriguing new Irish music that isn’t at all well-known outside the country. They’ll be happy to provide you with some sampler CDs of young composers, many of whom work in conjunction with the new media division of Trinity College…