Oboe professor at Michigan State University College of Music Jan Eberle stopped by to put some finishing touches on Spectral Trio CD that should be ready for press sometime next week. The sound and the playing on this recording is so beautiful. Makes me very sad that pianist Kim Schmidt will never see this CD... He passed away in August... Hearing his charming playing on this recording makes

Quentin flew in from New York City to record a CD of romantic music by Liszt, Saint-Saens, Weber, and some of his own compositions. He is getting a Doctorate degree at Juilliard studying with Claude Frank and Jerome Lowenthal. Quentin has degrees from Peabody, Yale and Juilliard. I honestly lost track of his degrees quite a few years ago.

He is an excellent pianist and just a super nice

Ricardo Lorenz is professor of composition at Michigan State University. We recorded his piece for solo cello earlier this summer with Miguel Rojas, cellist who now lives in Philadelphia. It is a great piece, combining a lot of different techniques and articulations, and moving gracefully between cute and profound, characteristic Latin rhythms and long melodies. I look forward to hearing this work

Vocalist Shahida Nurullah and guitarist Spencer Barefield were doing the concert on the campus of the Cranbrook Educational Comunity in Detroit area. This concert was supposed to take place outside in the gardens, but due to the weather was moved to a new location under the roof but with open sides overlooking beautiful series of fountains. Recording these concerts is usully a puzzle that needs

Beautiful sounds of saxophone filled The Ballroom. David Stambler is assistant professor of saxophone at Penn State University and he and Jun Okada are working on the CD of music by Weiser, Prokofiev, John Anthony Lennon and other composers.

Neumann mics sound awesome on saxophone, capturing the mellow sound with great detail, and Schoeps mics on my Steinway are always reliable.

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That was a lot of fun! Albertine and Ralph Votapek recorded the whole CD of two piano music. We decided to call it "From Mozart to Piazzolla", because that's what it is (there is Schubert and Debussy in between).