Here is a press release for the premiere of my little chamber opera, FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. Wish me luck!
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Fri Oct 5 07:09:53 2007 Pacific Time
ADVISORY for Wednesday, Oct. 10
Musical Feast at Union Theological Seminary Features Premiere of Bourland’s ‘The Flight into Egypt’
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UCLA starts later than most schools; our first day was September 27. Although I’ve been Chair of the Music Department since July 1, that was all just practice. With students and faculty back everything is much busier.
I decided that I wanted to create a better sense of community in our department. To that end, […]
And just to balance things out, here is young Glenn Gould playing an excerpt from the Bach Partita No.2 originally shown on the documentary television program “The Art of the Piano.”
A late and thrilling performance by the master wizard pianist Glenn Gould. For those who don’t know this work, it was Bach’s last work and was a collection of Fugues based roughly on one theme, or “subject.” The instrumentation was never specified but is traditionally played by keyboards, and is sometimes arranged for chamber ensembles.
One of the “joys” or habits many of us newspaper readers have is reading the obits, learning of someone’s passing, and offering up a personal sigh of appreciation of how they touched our lives. One such man showed up in today’s paper: Mahlon Clark, who died at age 84 in Los Angeles. Doesn’t sound familiar? […]
We had a big music department party at our house on Saturday. What fun. One of my colleagues, Vladimir Chernov, was there. I put this video on our new UCLA blog, and liked it some much I had to share it with my readers. I showed it to him. He had no idea it had […]
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