I send you greetings from Rome, where we are in the midst of preparations for the opening of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma next week. It’s a joy to reunite with my Grammy-winning colleagues from San Francisco and to have another chance at this extraordinary opera we all worked so hard to learn a few years ago in the Bay. The sweltering summer temperatures lingered on…

On this New Year’s Day, a sprig of of thyme.

“…Thyme it is the prettiest thing,
And time it will grow on,
And time it'll bring all things to an end
And so does my time grow on…”

“One of the social media initiatives at CAIC last year was a weekly #WomensHistoryWednesday post as we focused on the theme of last year’s Collaborative Works Festival, which celebrated the the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment…”

“My day today has mostly been about making sure everything ran smoothly for this weekend’s broadcast of CAIC’s Winter Lieder Lounge, which is streaming through this weekend. I wrote recently about how much I enjoyed producing this recital, and how rewarding it has been to be able to work with my friends and colleagues in this way over the years…”

“During last night’s episode of Heard Over The Piano, Sasha Cooke spoke a bit about the singer’s stigma of being a ‘good musician’. While that initially sounds like a compliment, early on in her career she had the impression that many believe that ‘being a good musician’ was really a euphemism for ‘not a good singer’…”

“I had a fascinating conversation this evening with the mezzo-soprano, Sasha Cooke, as part of CAIC’s online discussion series, Heard Over The Piano. We started the series this season at CAIC in order to provide a virtual approximation of the salon-aspect of how we normally present recitals in Chicago when we are able to do live concerts. Ever since the beginning of the organization…”

“I spent much of today sitting in my friend Henry’s studio, editing the footage of what will compromise CAIC’s upcoming Winter Lieder Lounge recital which airs March 5-7. The recital features two colleagues and friends of mine, baritone Edward Nelson and pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg. We filmed their performance a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been pondering how much I enjoy producing since that session…”