Coming Soon to My Blog...

Here are something that will be taking place in the very near future which I plan to post about on this blog.

Green Party: This Sunday, the Green Party of Colorado will be meeting to vote on nominations for the upcoming 2016 election, including President and U.S. Senate. I'm a registered Green and fairly active within the state party. We have one candidate, Arn Menconi, running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Colorado, and five candidates running nationally for President. Of the five candidates, I will be supporting Jill Stein this weekend. Jill Stein was the Green Party presidential nominee back in 2012 when I first became affiliated with the Green Party. She is proposing a Green New Deal for America which offers real solutions to the problems facing our country with Climate Change at the center. By working together as a nation to solve the problem of Climate Change we can improve our health, create jobs, combat racism and sexism in a meaningful way, and maybe even save the planet. I'm super excited for this meeting and I plan to post about it next week.

UNC Composers Recital: On Thursday, April 7, the UNC composers will put on a recital featuring compositions all by UNC student composers.  The concert will feature freshman pianist, Katie Hughes, who will be playing on nearly half the numbers on the concert. We had a lot of submissions for this recital, and the program will be about two hours in length including a short intermission. The recital will begin at 8:00pm in Frasier Hall room 90 on campus. This concert is free and open to the public. I plan on posting a review of the recital next weekend.

The Graphic Scores Project: On Wednesdays, April 6 and 13, I will be leading a small group of UNC composers in teaching students from Prairie Heights Middle School in Evans, CO how to make and interpret graphic scores. This is an exciting pilot project which, if successful, I hope to spread to more schools next year, and kick start a program that can be continued by future UNC composers well into the future. The project will finish with a concert on Friday, April 15 at 5:00pm, where PMHS students with UNC students will perform the graphic scores created by PHMS students. The concert is free and open to the community. I plan on posting about my experience two weeks from now.

That's all for now.  Check back for these future posts.