A reverie, tinged with understandable concern.

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In 1980, Bill Irwin and I did a show for the Baltimore International Theatre Festival; it contained many of the bits that later became The Regard of Flight. Murdoch was the name of our putative theatrical company, which also included Michael O’Connor.  He was elsewhere for this gig.

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For “Murder in the Library,” Michele Larsson and I wrote a half-hour radio detective show, by scrupulously following the formulas in a writers’ manual.  We recorded it with a fine cast, and Michele choreographed a solo dance to it.  This was in San Francisco, in 1980.

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All of us who write music hear music in dreams.  I don’t know what to make of it.  Is it inspiration, brain garbage, cryptamnesia?  I write it down when I awake.  Here’s one of them.  

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I usually perform this song on the uke, preferably with viola obbligato; but here’s the first and fifth verses, and a bit of the piano version. I sit by the window, my room’s nice and dark. I gaze at the sky and the clouds. Perhaps I should go for a walk in the park And […]

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Back in 1977, some of the members of the Oberlin Dance Collective, plus a few others, put on a show of work that didn’t quite fit into ODC.  I contributed a program, an 8mm film collage, and artwork and deviled eggs for the lobby.

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Those of you who enjoyed Bill Irwin’s show The Regard of Flight may be interested in this antique document. This was the first stirring of it, back in 1977 in San Francisco.  At this point, it was only Bill and me, but Michael had a piece on the other half of the program. As usual, […]

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These are four brief pieces written for the piano-zither, a 3/15 diatonic chord zither with a simple keyboard mechanism — a sort of miniature table-top piano.  They can also be played on other keyboard instruments, of course.  Here’s a sample of the first piece.

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In the early ’80s, Bill Irwin, Michael O’Connor and I sometimes worked together under the name “Murdoch.” I don’t remember where the name came from; I think Bill may have dreamed it. In 1981, Bill and I played a run at the Mickery theater in Amsterdam under that name. The photos were by Bob van […]

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