Quintet L'homme armé takes as its touchstone the eponymous 15th cent. melody. The melody is subjected to a series of transformations so drastic as to render it completely unrecognizable in its new fragmented and atonal context. This transformed…

Palimpsest: A Composition of Maps (an isentropic semaphore on the Name of Asmira Woodward-Page) is part of an ongoing series of soggetto cavato pieces the I have written, in this case on the name and at the commission of violinist Asmira Woodward…

"'Deixo' is is verb used in classical Greek to connote both a logical proof and a stylish display of oratory in the presentation of that proof. In our years of working together, Jessica has often requested for a viola sonata, and as I settled…

see note in mvt. I

see note in mvt. I

Performed by Benjamin Fingland (cl) and Sumire Kudo (vc); 28 March, 2010; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. Notes on the work are found here: http://digressionsthirdman.blogspot.com/2010/03/etude-on-f-113-torino-jii9-qui-moult.html

Performed by Benjamin Fingland (cl) and Sumire Kudo (vc); 28 March, 2010; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. Notes on the work are found here: http://digressionsthirdman.blogspot.com/2010/03/etude-on-f-113-torino-jii9-qui-moult.html

"'Deixo' is is verb used in classical Greek to connote both a logical proof and a stylish display of oratory in the presentation of that proof. In our years of working together, Jessica has often requested for a viola sonata, and as I settled…

102nd & Amsterdam is dedicated to by father, Raymond Boyce; this was the first of many New York addresses for him. My fathers stories of growing up in New York in the 40's and 50's cemented in my mind the idea of New York as The City, an idea…