An illustrated verse.  I also set it to music, so I can sing it as it’s projected.

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Following the Thanksgiving show, KPFA invited me back for Valentine’s Day in 1978.  I sang some songs, played piano, and played 78s.

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They’re Roller-Sheep!  They’re here!  They’re everywhere!  They’re coming to your town!

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In 2003, The Signature Theatre presented a series of three productions by Bill Irwin; I wrote the music for two of them.  The Regard Evening was the second.  The first half was a shortened version of our old show, The Regard of Flight; the second a sequel, showing the characters twenty years later.  We were […]

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The Regard of Flight appeared at the Great Lakes Festival in Cleveland in 1987.  It was a busy year for that show. Here’s a review.  I’ve been called many things, but I’d never before been compared to an Arrow collar ad.

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The Regard of Flight was produced at Lincoln Center in 1987.  Since the Vivian Beaumont is classed as a Broadway house, this was officially my Broadway debut, as Mel Gussow noted in the New York Times (5/10/87).  

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The “Air de Trois Notes” may not be Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s most memorable melody, but it’s a charming essay in restraint.  I harmonized it both in G and in C, setting off those three pitches with a maximum of contexts.  And here’s the first part of it.

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Diderot is one of my favorite writers, and I’ve long enjoyed Le Neveu de Rameau. So, I was delighted to find a monograph on Jean François Rameau (by André Magnan), and particularly intrigued to learn that two melodies by that curious nephew had survived.  I harmonized them, and made a piano piece from the result; […]

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The story of five men in a rudderless boat, told in a stream of anapests with pictures.  I’ve done this as a performance, since the text was really meant to be read aloud.  Here’s the first page:

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A pencil sketch of the wonderful bell-like rocks at Ringing Rocks State Park, in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania.

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