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First came to Round Top as a student 30 summers ago. Grateful for all the learning, performing, and teaching opps this p...
06/28/2026

First came to Round Top as a student 30 summers ago. Grateful for all the learning, performing, and teaching opps this place has provided. Lovely percussion section this year and wishing them a successful final two weeks of experiences ahead as they finish out their time this summer.

Also fun to play Luca’s assistant this summer as he works on building his film portfolio. He’s been coming to RT with me for the past 7-8 years, once I started teaching. This year he had his camera in hand at every turn. Love seeing him pour his time and energy into something meaningful and rewarding.

And always grateful to spend time with my mom. This summer felt decidedly different now that my dad has passed. The experience, still good, has changed for all of us without his presence in moments like these.

Now eager to head home to Jessica and Jack and more summertime. Cheers!

02/24/2026

Fabulous day with and their wonderful percussion students, culminating in a terrific concert last day! Always rewarding to work with an incredible former student like Taylor and so appreciative for a few other alums ( and ) showing up to support. Bravi tutti!!!

02/20/2026

Here’s the middle section of Feast or Famine, an ever flowing stream of 6s that are sometimes in note groupings of 3s and sometimes in 4s…and then sometimes the rhythm leans forwards into 7s but still also present in note groupings of 3s or 4s. Then decays into 5s, 4s, and 3s at the end. I mostly remember what to do throughout this section until I don’t. Like all “easier” sections of larger works we play, it’s common that we don’t practice material like this enough because we’re more worried about the more challenging fireworks in other moments of the piece. Anyway, trying not to fall victim to that tendency…

Performance early next week at with studio!

02/18/2026

With performance no. 1 of ’s Feast or Famine on the near horizon next week I’m pivoting to linking bigger chunks together. This represents about the first quarter of the piece. Still some clunkers and a few misfires but largely things feeling ok for the old guy behind the wheel. Plus, with enough sniffs and kicks it’ll be an A+ marimba performance 🔥🕺🏻

02/06/2026

For today’s practice progress vid I’m playing the same lick 4xs in a row so you can get inside my “process”. By process I simply mean playing the same thing 4xs and ever so slightly varying the material here and there. By varying the material here and there I simply mean sometimes missing notes and sometimes not.

Other observations:

1) I think this is my fave lick of the piece bc it lays well and my ancient hands do ok with it
2) I’m wearing brown shoes today
3) I got a haircut thereby reducing total gray hair thereby becoming younger

02/04/2026

Episode 2 of Holding Myself Accountable for Practicing (Almost) Everyday and Trying to Tie Longer Sections Together While Still Admittedly Hitting a Few Wrong Notes and Being Under Tempo and Also Still Being Old. Thanks for watching.

02/02/2026

Haven’t had a super consistent practice routine in awhile but have put myself on a schedule in anticipation of two performances of Feast or Famine by , first with alum ’ group at TWU and a few weeks after with the home team BPG at . Forcing myself into connecting passages and focusing on flow, even if not up to tempo (it’s not) and missing notes (I do miss them, believe it or not). Enjoying the consistency of three practice days of an hour to an hour and a half each and some substantive results this early in the process. I’ll keep posting progress as I build into these performances. Also, when did I turn old…the hair and the pants are both grayscale.



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