I do like the rich sound of viola and organ.  Here’s the beginning of a brooding piece for that combination.

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I drew this originally as a slide show, then made a comics version.  I kept the graphic balloons translated by subtitles, however, since that was so much a part of it.  Our cowboy does see some cows, but they head out, so he stops for lunch.  His horse is stolen, so he serenades his sweetheart […]

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The Oberlin Dance Collective performed at Sonoma State College in 1977.  I sang a couple of songs, and contributed a theater piece, “Hide Hide The Cow’s Outside.”  And it looks as if I lettered the program, too.

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This is taken from my 1993 show, Eddie Unchained.  In this selection, Victoria, a caterer, is preparing refreshments for Eddie’s birthday party.  Victoria was played by Ivy Austin; she was accompanied by a string quartet of Robert Zubrycki, Cenovia Cummins, Carol Benner, and Benjamin Whittenburg.

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Lewis Carroll inserted a tune into his novel Sylvie and Bruno, for the song “Ting Ting Ting.”  It’s a fine little tune; so I wrote a set of variations on it.  And this is how it opens.

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I celebrate the New Year in a bilingual waltz. I had never written a song with French lyrics before; it was a pleasant exercise. I usually perform this song with a viola obbligato; it’s also been covered by one of my favorite bands, Les Chauds Lapins.

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“Oh,” for psaltery or keyboard, is brief, diatonic, freely metered. It’s a simple stirring of the strings, often landing on sevenths and sixths; it’s as slight as I could make it. Here’s how it begins.

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