Millennial Mouthful was White Knuckle Sandwich’s millennial extravaganza, in December 1999.  I wrote a new song for the occasion, “Y2WKS”; we had slides, videos, and special appearances by Brian Dewan and Linda Mancini.  Anne and Jen showed their smutty slideshow, “The Milkman Cometh”; Brian joined me for a two-autoharp arrangement of my song “Make the […]

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Michael Smith developed a children’s show in the ’90s, and I was invited to provide music.  I loaded a piano with percussion and sound effects, and had a fine time.  A number of people were also on board through its many changes, including that notable puppeteer, Alison Mork.  Mike and I decided at some point […]

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I’ve written a number of drone pieces for organ; this is one of them (that is, the beginning of one of them).

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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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