The Five Borough Songbook CD, which includes my Days afield on Staten Island, is in the Billboard Top Twenty: Traditional Classical Albums! Keep it there by getting a copy!

The premiere of Since 1500 has received a nice review from the NYTimes. "Striking.... a harmonically rich, polyphonic web."

Excerpts from the Mannes School of Music's concert of Marymere are up on youtube.

I'm co-hosting a brand-new podcast, Scopes Monkey Choir: The podcast where music and sound meet science and skepticism. It's an excuse to talk about science and music, my two favorite subjects. Here's the 'official' description:

Two professional musicians chat about music in science, music in practice, and music in myth and fact. We mull over current studies, marvel at history, and nibble on audible oddities -- all with a skeptical eye.

It's very relaxed. And free! Join us through iTunes (preferred, so we get the ratings), or go to our website, where we'll also be doing some blogging.

(And any iTunes reviews would be welcome!)

Marymere got two great concert-version performances at the Jackson Hole Fire Festival in Wyoming. We all had a blast, and the audience reception was wonderful. And we New Yorkers they flew in for it were treated like royalty!

The Badger Game is a set of seven songs for guitar, voice, clarinet, viola, piano, and theorbo (a sort of giant 17th-century lute). The general theme is friends, past and present. It's a living-room-feel album, with all the intimate details of the instruments's sounds on full display.

Get the physical CD.
Get it on iTunes.

Also available on emusic, rhapsody, napster, and various such lovely outlets.

E. Henry David has published my vocal piece (SSA) Mistranslations. It's available online (and in stores) from Theodore Presser.
(Performing Mistranslations? Please note: the first tempo should be marked eighth note = 84, not quarter note.)

...over at NYC Performing Arts Spaces.

Spent ten days in Serbia as a visiting composer for South Oxford Six's Summer in Sombor workshop. American and Serbian composers, together with the Quintet Quartet woodwind quintet, working hard and playing hard. It ended with two concerts, one in Sombor and one in Novi Sad, premiering my Map #1 for woodwind quintet. I fell in love with Serbia, where the people are warm and welcoming, the countryside is beautiful, and the rakija flows freely!