The Regard of Flight was taped for the PBS series Great Performances in 1983. Here I am in a press photo with Bill Irwin, Michael O’Connor, and Eddie Gray.

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Adrian was Doug and Mike’s acting teacher in “Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment.” I made him; Carol Brys made his costume. All of his students were also in his group therapy sessions, which led to some complications. He sometimes appeared as Mr. Corndog, a costumed mascot for a corndog stand, that being his only acting […]

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This song was suggested by a photo of a two-headed kitten that appeared in the Fortean Times. You can find it in The Doug Skinner Songbook and on the album That Regrettable Weekend. Here’s how it begins.

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A setting of my own abridged translation of a profoundly disturbing passage in the Fioretti di San Francesco, in which Saint Francis opines that true happiness is being beaten mercilessly with a heavy knotted stick while contemplating Christ’s suffering.

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This photocopied dossier collects 49 pages of my keyboard music. Let me know if you’d like one. The pieces are: Life’s Little Sorrows Mozart at the Cannery Works Waltz Under the Weather Fort in Solrésol Chuff The Scenic Route Stevenson at the Flageolet Lull Lorem Ipsum Dolor Bach Had a Bad Headache The Passing Clouds […]

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This lively fanfare was written for two of my favorite instruments. They don’t get to play together that often. Here’s the opening salvo.

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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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In the ’90s, John Keel reprinted some of his article as booklets, under the rubric of the New York Fortean Society. This one was taken from a piece he wrote for the Journal of Popular Culture; I provided the cover illustration. John was particularly insistent that there be someone in a straitjacket.

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I have a nice old-fashioned monochord that I often use to teach music theory. Contemplation of the relationship between number and pitch led me to write this little piece, based on the primes between 1 and 100. It’s delightfully grating.

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