Orchids are blooming on my windowsill.

And I’m a fulltime composer now, after years as a critic, consultant, and thought leader on classical music’s future.

The recording of my three string quartets is coming out. It’s on the Acis label, played by the Terra String Quartet, recent winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition.

Also here: some writing about how — which is shocking to me — we don’t have data on classical music ticket sales. We don’t know how far they may have fallen, over many years, so we can’t measure the size of the classical music crisis.