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Yes, I managed to get "Pyscho" into my Valentine's Day concert ... you see, it was about "all the varieties of Love" … and I had a "perverted love" category....

This is also from our Valentine's Day concert.

On the 14th we had a Valentine's Day concert — romantic music from 100 years of Hollywood.

We started work yesterday on a Valentine concert of classic movie love themes. Most of the great romantic classics of course were long before these kids were even born. Thought you might enjoy these snippets

Thoughts While Binge-Watching “The Mandalorian” - S.P. Somtow I was finally able to watch The Mandalorian recently in between moments of incredible personal and professional stress. And one of the best

Here's a link to the Financial Times story about my opera … and here is the video (with yellow subtitles) of the entire opera I hope you enjoy it Best — Somtow

This is what I wrote in the program book … SIX MILLION AND ONE Helena Citrónová is an opera. That is to say, it is a performance in which we accept the crazy notion that people walk around on a stage singing

I was thinking about how Princess Leia managed to appear in the final movie — reconstituted from unused pieces of celluloid. So I thought I'd post our performance of the Princess Leia theme from a couple

This essay will not be spoiler-free. A long time ago … and the galaxy might as well be far, far, away because I’m not a quantum particle and so my consciousness is stuck for ever on a swath of spacetime

A few glitches here and there but hey, it's live music. And the first concert of the Sinfonietta's Tenth Season. Hope you enjoy!

Four youth orchestras from Thailand and five conductors celebrated Beethoven's birthday and the launch of a year-long Beethoven celebration with a "reverse flash mob" — one where the music starts

Today I took a rehearsal of the 1812 Overture for the first time in my life. (Thank god I found a score of the non-Soviet edition just in time.) Amazing that it would take so long for me to address one

found this clip which is about 3 years old. It's the Stravinsky "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" - early version from I believe 1910.

In response to the generous response to my article about the music for my upcoming opera, I'm posting the video of the Prague premiere of the suite. The whole opera will premiere in Bangkok in January

This opera began years ago with an overture: a clanging, elemental, shrieking, painful overture that’s not so much like “music” as like the actual sound of a nightmare train. At that point, I had written

Some unusual works here — a new piece by Bruce Gaston and a suite from my upcoming opera, "Helena Citronova".

More things I have been doing to get in the way of writing novels

This is what I've been doing lately.

This is a scene from ARCHITECT OF DREAMS, my latest opera, which premiered two days ago.

Two weeks after I directed "Jesus Christ Superstar" I had a completely different event - I conducted the kids in Mahler's 4th Symphony. Hope you enjoy this!