My new two-CD recording of solo and chamber compositions, Unearthly Delights, will soon appear on the Innova label. I consider this collection to be a self-contained musical memoir. Each work embodies a personal story, each came with its own challenge, and each challenge was met with an epiphany that led to a conceptual, stylistic, or technical breakthrough. These compositions represent my interpretations of and responses to literature (Edgar Allan Poe, Juan Rulfo, Gertrude Stein), art (Remedios Varo), nature (frogs), food, friendship, J.S. Bach, and the Oxford English Dictionary. These works were mostly composed during the past decade: Fissure; Los Murmullos; Julie’s Garden of Unearthly Delights; Poem for Doreen; Four; Fore; Is Money Money; Creación de las Aves; A – Zythum; After a Dammit to Hell; and Devil in the Belfry.

Commissioners include organizations and individuals: the: Library of Congress, the Montecito Festival, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Sequitur; Ana Cervantes, Julie Feves, Jay Barksdale, and the Panic Duo.