Thank you, KRTU San Antonio!
Just a note of thanks to KRTU, the jazz radio station in San Antonio, Texas. Multiple DJs, including Katchie Cartwright and Carl Stewart, have played songs from all three of my full-length albums — and I think I’m forgetting another DJ who played Calling You. Here’s today’s show with Carl Stewart, who opened with All...
The Names of the Winds – New Video
I upgraded to Sibelius First 7 this week and have had a lot of fun learning its features, especially the ability to create video of your sheet music! I exported a video of the sheet music (which took me a few days to transcribe — I only had a lead sheet of the arrangement, and...
Birth of an Arrangement: The Names of the Winds
It was the second set of our show. The pianist shot me a malevolent glare, then proceeded to butcher the opening chords of the song I was about to sing, obfuscating the key so I couldn’t tell what note to start with. He finished the intro; silence lingered as the band waited for me to...
Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes
Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes (“if my verses had wings”) is a poem by Victor Hugo set to music in 1888 by child prodigy Reynaldo Hahn when he was 14 years old. It was published by Le Figaro and was a hit. I recorded this as a first test of my new Zoom H2N...
