Now live on YouTube for on demand re-re-watching: House Work, performed by the Pogoss­ian family. Also please see: the “making of” mini-docu­men­tary.

Today’s new Youtube video is my set of Moving Études from 2017. The three études are pianis­tic studies not on specific tech­ni­cal chal­lenges, but on the idea of tempo, rhythm, and rubato as expres­sive tools.

photo, from a safe distance, by Calla Kessler for The New York Times.

I Face­timed with The New York Times’s Joshua Barone to talk about my recent YouTube foray and the current state of non-concertizing.

Some hard evidence that last month’s Proof show at Cincin­nati Symphony really, truly happened. Grateful for the contri­bu­tions of John Hegin­botham & dancers, Inbal Segev, André de Ridder, John Beale and the Cincin­nati Sacred Harp Singers. Photos by Mikki Schaffner, provided by Cincin­nati Symphony Orchestra.

I love eBay—the great thrift store in the sky—and have been pretty active on the site as both a buyer and seller since I was in grad school. Recently David Coggins, one of my favorite writers on “men’s issues” such as what clothes to wear, asked me to write about my eBay watch list for his new website, The Contender. For those unfa­mil­iar, the watch list is a kind of purga­tory for auctions you’ve got your eye on but either can’t ratio­nal­ize or can’t afford. It’s a real window to the soul, in other words. 

The great Irish singer Lisa Hannigan released a live album with the chamber orches­tra stargaze last month, on which they perform my arrange­ment of her haunting song Barton.