“The Grammy Awards are tomorrow.

Strangely, if my loved ones weren’t constantly wishing me well for tomorrow, I would almost have forgotten about the ceremony. While it is surreal enough to be nominated for a Grammy Award, it is even more dreamlike in the context of covid, with everything taking place online…”

“Day 24.

It’s interesting to me that as I enter the home stretch of this exercise in daily posting, this is the most challenging part. Each day, I push my writing time later and later, as if I am doing my best to miss a day…”

“As the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus lockdown in the United States passes us by this week, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people discussing where we were a year ago, reminiscing about how little we seemed to know and the strange things everyone was doing as the world…”

“The weather the past twenty-four hours has been a bit strange here in San Francisco. We had hail late last night, and then despite being sunny much of the day, small rainstorms blew through in my neighborhood intermittently all day. My home in is an ideal place to nest on wet days…”

“For Day 21 of this challenge, I’m sharing a video: Another song from the mini-concert I filmed in Denver in 2017 with my dear friend, violist da gamba Ann Marie Morgan…”

“Are you beginning to feel like we might finally be emerging from this very long, dark, viral winter? I am beginning to have some seedlings of hope feel as if they are tentatively beginning to sprout…”

“This week, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has a special broadcast of a performance Franz Schubert’s epic, cantata-like song for tenor, horn, and piano, Aud dem Strom from 2016. I have a lot of very happy memories with this piece, having had the privilege of performing this piece many times over the years…”