The pianist Blair McMillen can play composers like Liszt, Debussy and Scriabin with flair, intelligence and Juilliard-honed virtuosity, as his self-produced 2004 recording "Soundings" makes abundantly clear.
And that also applies to his biggest hit so far, The Horne Section, a "comedy jazz party" in which he plays composer, musical director and MC.
The plays' composer was one of their own -- 12-year-old William Fox -- and they have now taken his "Questionable Quest," with book and lyrics by his mother, Cinda Fox, to Manhattan.
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, an orchestra will play the composer's greatest symphonic works.
Mr. Gergiev and the Mariinsky musicians play that composer's operas and ballets constantly in St . Petersburg
MARY RODGERS GUETTEL, center, with her husband, HENRY GUETTEL, and their son ADAM GUETTEL, the play's composer and lyricist.
He called the experience of hearing the Philharmonic, which has a long tradition of interpreting Mahler symphonies, play the composer's Third Symphony "life-altering".
The Philip Glass Ensemble will play the composer's "Music in Twelve Parts" and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Collegiate Chorale and Michael Riesman, playing the organ, will perform Mr. Glass's "Another Look at Harmony".
I gave "Melancholy Play" to composer Todd Almond and asked him if he heard more music in it, and he said: yes, he heard it almost sung through with a string quartet and a piano.
As further evidence, Tim Minchin - the play's composer and lyricist - noted that he's often seen grown men..
