One of my most satisfying projects of this past year was completing the composition and arrangement of the song “Mi condena / My Damnation” with guitarist Yasser Tejeda. We’ve only played it once, back in May, during The Mermaid’s Feet concerts in the Bronx, as you will see below.
I composed the music and over-the-top [...]
Last month, I spent three blissful weeks as a Greenleaf Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Southwest Research, going through the archived personal papers of a Planet New Mexico “character” who has captured my attention: musician, composer, professor, folk music collector and lawyer John Donald Robb (1892-1989).
I presented my initial [...]