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The sketches for Schoenberg’s Drei Volkslieder, Op. 49 (part of my DMA recital) are available online at schoenberg.at.

I’ll be leaving for a five-day research trip to Portugal soon. Included on my trip is a visit to the Museu da Música - Casa Verdades de Faria for the opening of its new space. This is part of my research into Portuguese composer, performer, musicologist, and teacher Fernando Lopes-Graça. In particular I will be focusing on his Canções Regionais Portuguesas, a collection of over 240 harmonizations of traditional Portuguese songs, and developing a resource to make these works available to the general (non-Portuguese speaking) public.

Wednesday Oct. 19 at 8pm, Ramsey Concert Hall.

The UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble will present (among other things) a performance of Varèse’s Ionisation featuring me playing the siren parts on my laptop. We don’t have appropriate sirens among the percussion departments holdings, so I was asked to design an instrument using CSound. If you are interested in using the instrument, check it out here. It is fully functional and relatively easy to learn how to use. At the very least, it is much cheaper than renting the real things. If you’re curious to hear what it sounds like, here is a short excerpt.