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		<title>Doctoral defense a success; composer emerges from hibernation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I had made it a personal goal to finish my formal education by the time I turned 30. Until I was 29 this appeared eminently doable, at which point it suddenly seemed near-impossible. Yet, degree-finishing intricacies notwithstanding, I am happy to announce that, exactly eight days before I reached the three-decade mark, the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O, to be a Virginian&#8230; (on the Upper East Side)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, NYC will turn into &#8220;a Kentucky cornfield&#8221; on May 7 at 8:00pm, when Makoto Nakura (marimba luminary) and the amazing Cantori New York (Mark Shapiro, cond.) premiere my new piece, O Magnet-South. The text, by Walt Whitman, is richly evocative of the &#8220;glistening, perfumed&#8221; American South, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230; down by the riverside&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after a whirlwind of interviews and presentations, I was offered and accepted the next big adventure&#8230; This August I&#8217;ll assume the post of Assistant Professor of Music Theory/Composition at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, 180 miles west of Logan Square on the Mississippi River.
Meanwhile, the dissertation is cooking furiously, Makoto is recording Arbor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Attractions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next eleven months are going to be a hurricane of activity in these parts: with high hopes of finishing my PhD from Universitas Chicaginiensis by the end of Summer 2011 and a docket of intriguing projects, I fear no lack of excitement for the 2010-11 season.
Fresh off our collaboration from last year, marimbist-luminary Makoto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can barely mask my shame for allowing the whole 2009-2010 season to pass without updating the site! It has been one adventure after another, but here we are at Summer again, looking back on a busy and eventful year. Below are some highlights:

On a personal note (and by far most importantly), A Bancks is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive premiere in Chicago, 9.20.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to imagine a world premiere in more familiar territory: it&#8217;s in Chicago (my adoptive hometown), specifically in Logan Square (where I live), at St. John Berchmans Church (where I&#8217;m Director of Music), commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria, Inc. (which also commissioned Lumen de Lumine), and performed by the Millennium Chamber Players (which I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid Transit wrap-up, with photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an amazing week at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, where my old friend Ryan McAdams and virtuosi Mary, Kevin, Louis, Anne, and Oya did amazing work premiering my new chamber piece, Rapid Transit for oboe, trumpet, trombone, bassoon and percussion.
The Boston Globe said quite accurately that the piece was &#8220;highly caffeinated,&#8221; (thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tanglewood goes off the rails, 8.8.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across the street from my home is a subway station, the infamous Chicago El. From its platform, you can either board a train toward one of the world&#8217;s great urban centers, or toward one of the world&#8217;s busiest airports &#8212; and from there, fly to anywhere in the world. The modern possibilities of high-speed transportation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eighth blackbird runs out the clock, 5.15 in Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t know much about the 14th Century British monk Richard of Wallingford, except that he was abbot in the monastery at St. Albans, and that he spent a good part of his time designing and constructing an elaborate astronomical clock, which he named Albion. Although the actual clock was destroyed in the Reformation (Thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider yourself warned: Aztec apocalypse coming to Southern Illinois University (3.27.09) and Chicago (5.3.09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were an Aztec, A.D. 1519 was a very bad year for you. Part crass western hegemony, part taste-of-your-own-medicine irony, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire was not pretty, bringing to an ugly end one of the most powerful and productive societies of the pre-Modern world.
Yet, if the accounts recorded in the Florentine [...]]]></description>
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