brin spotting: Hoople Requiem
Happy new year! I hope the world is keeping you all well. This week, brin has been spotted...
in VAN magazine!
Last week, we lost professor demeritus Peter Schickele of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, the foremost expert on PDQ Bach, the last and least of JS's innumerable children. Thru his work on PDQ, Schickele was a deeply formative influence of mine, and I had the great joy of writing a tribute to/reminiscence of him in VAN magazine. You can click on over and read it here: https://van-magazine.com/mag/peter-schickele-pdq-bach/
in the works:
Things are a little quiet on the performance front, but there are a number of pieces in various stages of simmering on the stove. My tuba sonata should be released as a professional recording this spring, and later this year I'm hopeful that a scene from The Quality of Mercy (my queer Jewish operatic reworking of The Merchant of Venice) will get up on its legs in one form or another.
I can say with certainty that in the next few months, I'll be teaching a class on liturgical Hebrew thru the good folks at Shel Maala. Details and registration forthcoming, but it should be a good time! On the siddur front, I've now fully coded the HTML version of the complete Shabbat + Festival liturgy (about 50,000 lines of code!) and am about 15% of the way thru making the PDF. I'm tentatively penciling in a release date around Passover, but that may shift and wiggle a little bit depending on the vicissitudes of life.
That's all I've got for now. Stay safe, treat each other excellently, love something so much you eat it.
Tromboonily,
brin