At some point last night, I reached 13,000 followers on Twitter. What makes that particular number extra cool is that the day I hit 13,000 is three years to the day from 13‘s opening night on Broadway, October 5, 2008! 13 and 13,000? Right? ADMIT IT, IT’S COOL. I have to admit that 13,000 feelsRead More »

There isn’t much I can say about this song or the events that inspired it. I don’t perform it very often anymore because it now feels like a promise that wasn’t kept. But for several years after I wrote it, I had the great good fortune to have Adriane Lenox join me and share herRead More »

As you can read in the news feature I posted yesterday, the CD of The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony is now available for purchase and download. I’m so thrilled that people are getting to hear and fall in love with this story. One of my favorite movements to write was the sectionRead More »

I have been so inspired by Paul Simon for my entire creative life, and never more so than now, when he’s got a spectacular new album, So Beautiful or So What, for which he’s been touring around the country with the most incredible band I’ve ever seen onstage in my life. So today, when IRead More »

Unbeknownst to me, the sound engineer in Brisbane recorded our show on Friday, and since we’ve been having so much fun doing the concerts, I thought I’d share some of that recording with you all. Enjoy the sound of me mashing an unsuspecting Australian Steinway to smithereens. [For sound nerds: It’s a pretty weird recordingRead More »