Updates

another year…

The “annual” reunion this year will be at Lethe Lounge, at 618 W 113th St on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Thursday Sept 7th at 8pm. It’ll be a tight fit, but great acoustics and a great hang. Some old music, some new music, some deep listening… Looking forward to seeing y’all…

GL, alto & bari sax, accordion, piano and vocals; Doug Wieselman, clarinets, saxes, guitar; Peter Apfelbaum, tenor sax; Steven Bernstein, trumpet, slide trumpet; Art Baron, trombone; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion & Wollesonics.

Belatedly and after the fact, I’m pleased to say we managed to do an intense 3 and 1/2 week workshop of this new chamber opera up in northern CA (whilst dealing with rampant Delta variant and wild fires) which culminated in 3 concert performances at the Arcata Playhouse at the end of August, the last of which was live streamed.  The original stream was available for a week only, but was re-posted  for a second week due to the demand for tickets.  I am enormously grateful to everyone involved for making this happen, particularly my librettist and long-time colleague Joan Schirle, the instigator of the project…

for more info on the piece go to https://ginaleishman.com/projects/bird-of-the-inner-eye/ or http://birdinnereye.com

We are very much hoping to finally pick up the postponed work on BIRD in August, with 3 weeks of rehearsals and three concert performances at the Arcata Playhouse Aug 27, 28 and 29 – depending, of course, on the state of the pandemic, vaccinations etc… Stay tuned…

And so here we are, in a brave new world….

I am in exile, in self isolation, wishing the world, and all those I love, good health and safety ahead…