›› (5/7) New York, NY: Holy Thursday Jesse Blumberg and Jocelyn Dueck on a Friends and Enemies Concert.
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›› (5/9) Richmond, VA: Songs of Experience Steven Condy and Jamie Rankin as part of the Masters as Teachers 07-08 Concert Series.
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›› (5/11) Madison, WI: We're All Here [premiere of revised version for SATB & piano] the Wisconsin Chamber Choir, Robert Gehrenbeck, conductor.
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›› (5/18) Lakeview, OR: Broken Pieces [opera with libretto by Barbara Grecki] University of Oregon Opera Theater Operas in Repertory Tour, directed by Douglas Webster.
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Standing in the Piazza San Marco very early in the morning on a December day in 1989, bathed in that insalubrious, marrow-chilling, surgically gray mist that seems to simultaneously rise from and fall into the canals, I thought about a morning a few months earlier back in New York when I'd risen, descended to the Korean deli in my bathrobe carrying a coffee mug in order to buy a Times and a scone only to be tackled by a handsome young coked-out Captain America-type arbitrageur looking behind him waving a hundred dollar bill at his aggravated cabdriver and thanked God I was here, here where I thought I'd live forever....
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