On the 12th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
12 Transcendental Études
11 Pipers playing Varèse’s “Density 21.5”
10 Mahler Symphonies
9 Beethoven, Dvorák, Vaughan Williams, etc. etc. Symphonies, and Basically Mahler Too
8 Hours of Sleep
7 Notes in the Diatonic Scale
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Why is Aslan on the Island of Misfit Toys?

Released today! My solo piano single of my own “Proletariat Syncopations”, available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and many other locales.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy70...

My take on Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time Is Here”. Good tidings of great joy to all.

#Christmas #piano #jazz

Best misspelling of a composer's name encountered on a paper: Henry Cowbell. #DontFearTheBanshee

In the years following Stalin's death, the Soviet leadership began to remove his name from buildings. From 1953 and ending in 1961, the Lenin Mausoleum was the “Lenin and Stalin Mausoleum”. The process famously came to be known as “De-Stalinization.”
#KennedyCenter

Boomers: The Day of the Jackal
Gen X: The Day After
Millenials: The Day After Tomorrow
Gen Z: Happy Death Day

Formidable icicles outside the house this morning. My head/torso and hand for scale. Roslyn Village Historic District, NY. Soundtrack: my recording of Vincent Persichetti’s Sonata No. 1.

Excerpt of my own arrangement/improvisation on Chick Corea's "Spain", recorded in concert July 6, 2025, Chiesa dell’Addolorata, Acqui Terme, Italy, as part of the Interharmony International Music Festival.

Glorious excess of holiday whimsy at Oscar Wilde, NYC (W. 27th in NoMad)

Fantastic semester-end studio class with my @princeton.edu piano students! Wonderful, wide-ranging program, ending with Alkan’s colossal and hypervirtuosic Le Festin d’Ésope.

#Princeton #piano #music #virtuosity #artistry

Great recording session at Raccoon Castle East (aka my home studio) with the brilliant Joseph Martin Waters! The menu included my new solo piece “Proletariat Syncopations”, and Joe’s new solo piece “Cleansing” (inspired by Fats Waller, Art Tatum, and Stevie Wonder) for imminent release -stay tuned!

Had a blast performing last night at the Ellington Room in Manhattan Plaza, including the premiere of my own “Proletariat Syncopations”, as well as killer ragtime/stride-influenced pieces by Dan Cooper and Joseph Martin Waters, on a show called Rag Times, part of the Composers Concordance series.

Besides my own Proletariat Syncopations, I’ll be performing another ragtime-influenced piano piece by Dan Cooper called “Precariat”, which is a portmanteau of “precarious” and “proletariat.” Concert this Friday Dec. 5 @ the Ellington Room, Manhattan Plaza:

www.livemusicproject.org/events/16536...

Excerpt of my new piece “Proletariat Syncopations”, which I’ll be premiering this Friday, December 5th, 7pm at the Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza, on a program entitled Rag Times, part of the Composers Concordance season.
#concert #music #piano #ragtime #Ellington #ManhattanPlaza #solidarity

Relics of a bygone era, just unearthed. Taught at these 2 places, and 3 others (Brandeis, Berklee, and Clark U) in the same academic year. It was constantly stimulating, and occasionally exhausting. The following year, we moved to NY so I could start pursuing a DMA at Stony Brook with Gil Kalish.

I have so many gigs with my new band today, Nine Inch Gizzards

Maurice Ravel: Canard de la Nuit
II: Le Giblet