Roger Reynolds of UCSD’s music department, was gracious and generous enough to invite some grad students over to his house to have dinner with Philip Glass. Composer/Conductor and chair of the music department Rand Steiger was …
Four new reviews in Cadence for pfMENTUM
Cadence magazine, by the way, has a lovely new quarterly version. Highly recommended reading. Sorry about the scans, don’t have time to re-type them right now.Click here to see them full page. Gove review by Robert …
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Nero fiddled…we played chess…
Will, Jeff, Ben To pass the time during the campus closure due to the fires, pianist Will Fried, and traditional Irish musician Ben Power and myself have been hitting the board…you’ve got to do something to …
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The Palindrome, Oakland, CA
Barry and Jeff I met Barry Threw at The Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN last February. He is a very bright and creative musician with monstrous tech chops as well, what a nice combination. So I …
From the Santa Barbara Independent…
Farewell But Not GoodbyeThursday, May 24, 2007By Josef Woodard FREEDOM HITS THE ROAD: Trying to wrap your mouth, let alone your brain, around the synthetic word pfMENTUM is a challenge. In some way, it belongs to …
Interview in the local paper…
After a farewell show Saturday, Ventura’s new-music wizard is leaving for San Diego By Karen LindellThursday, May 24, 2007 Ventura County Star “The stranger’s nose was no more heard of” is an obscure quotation from Laurence …
Kirk Silsbee Interview
The last days of Ventura’s secret mayorLocal avant-garde impresario Jeff Kaiser bids the county adieu ~ By KIRK SILSBEE ~ Though no one is making much of it, an era is coming to an end. For …
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For a limited time only!
Maxwell Gualtieri and Louis Lopez volunteered to help advertise my farewell gig…this was a bit unexpected…
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Farewell Ventura Gig
Some friends are helping me with a send-off gig at Ventura City Hall, May 26…(Private music students please note: my last teaching day is June 29) For those of you that don’t know, I’m leaving to …