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No big write-up for today—after rehearsal, I did a 7 PM onstage interview with David Pogue and signed a few books. He was terrific, a bracing conversationalist who brought out my mischievous side. Now I am home, it’s 10:30, I haven’t really eaten dinner, and I have to...
Today was a bit rough for me, though extremely productive for the artists and for the project as a whole. We ran all the songs (with one exception, at Will Kim’s request), worked in detail on everything, and even had time for a Skype call with Jean-Paul Björlin to...
I overslept today, which meant two things: I felt a bit better than I had yesterday (at least until I began to crash at around 3:30), and we got off to a late start. Béné and I walked in to find Luis at the piano working on the Tchaikovsky duet, a lovely waltz based...
I always look forward to my yearly residency at Caramoor. The people who work there give us a beautiful welcome, our presence is clearly something they anticipate, and the opportunity to settle down with a single project in a calm, quiet environment with a talented...
Some program ideas emerge in a single moment of inspiration. Fugitives had such a birth: it sprang into being one night in June of 2007, when I was onstage with Kate Lindsey at Wolf Trap. We were doing a concert of German songs from the Weimar years called Berlin...
The idea for this program came to me last spring when I was having tea with the two singers in tonight’s cast, Shelén Hughes Camacho and Joseph Parrish. While pursuing independent careers on the world’s concert halls and opera houses, spanning from Carnegie Hall...