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I was back in Lincoln for a concert a while back, and I wondered over to the music building. I ducked my head into John Bailey's office to say hello. John is a brilliant flutist and scholar and someone I've always admired. I first met him when I was a graduate...

In February, I had the chance to do a concert with my friend, Forrest (Farhad) Pierce. The conceit of the event was that we would each write a piece for the concert that would be sung by the incomperable Sarah Anderson with me playing the organ.  Forrest is a...

In the middle of Lent, I had the chance to re-visit J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2 which I used as a prelude for our Palm Sunday service at St. Paul's KCMO. It was a piece I had learned in my late teens, and I wanted to visit it again to see how much I had changed. I...

I'm still working my way through an Iris Murdoch reader. She has to be one of the clearest and most astute systematic thinkers of the 20th century. It's just an amazing mind. This passage is lengthy, but worth the read. She has been sailing twixt the Scylla of Kantian...

As an undergrad at the University of Tampa, I had the good fortune to have the Spectrum Contemporary Ensemble in residence and giving concerts each semester I was there. The ensemble was an ad hoc group led by percussionist Dave Coash and cellist Lowell Adams. Both...