Writing

Essays & Reviews (here and elsewhere)

Jazz Speaks

Orchestrations: The Hidden Secret that Makes a Musical Great – MusicalWriters.com

Signifyin(g) with the Dead: Musical Memorialization at John Coltrane’s Funeral – Music & Literature

Ben Ratliff’s Every Song Ever – Music & Literature

Ringing Bell Or Smoke Machine: Technology and authenticity in the Punch Brothers’ “Familiarity”

Christ in the Concert Hall: Transforming the passion in settings by James MacMillan, David Lang, and Osvaldo Golijov

New Ways to Keep Score: Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians

Musical Understanding and the Critical Mindset

Because They Could Not Stop For Death: Meditations on Mortality in Britten’s “Death Be Not Proud” and Stravinsky’s “In Memoriam: Dylan Thomas”

Developing the Musical Negative: an analysis of the fourth movement of Bartok’s String Quartet no. 4