Jesse Green invited me to do a live interview with him at this year’s Inaugural Vulture Festival sponsored by New York Magazine. He also asked if I would bring along an additional singer, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to get to know Stephanie J. Block, who I’ve seen do such amazing work forRead More »

Back in March, I ended up with a nasty respiratory infection that laid me out for two weeks, and one of the consequences was that I had to cancel my concert and masterclass with PRiMA Theatre at the last minute.  Fortunately for all, the gang in Lancaster was able to reschedule, and so I tookRead More »

Well, it was bound to happen; after an unbelievably horrible winter of storms and cold, and then a frantic month of running around conducting, teaching and singing, my voice finally gave out, on the very morning of a concert that was part of my semester teaching at Harvard University.  (It got bad enough that IRead More »

A couple of months ago, I posted the set lists from a weekend of concerts I had done around the country, and I got a Facebook message from Kelli James asking why I wasn’t doing anything in Phoenix. “Well,” I said, “I guess it would be because no one invited me.” So Kelli and herRead More »