Archive for the 'Blog: Summer 07' Category

All Music review

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

American Voices continues to garner some good press. Here’s the latest review courtesy of All Music. And a nice little excerpt:
Brian Sacawa’s American Voices makes an excellent case for Sacawa’s skill as a player, but it also provides insight to the wide variety of options that composers are making available to artists of his caliber […]

Highway to heaven

Monday, August 20th, 2007

I got a chance to redeem myself at the Highway to Heaven Hill Climb this past Saturday after having to abandon a completely disappointing Tour de Christiana the weekend prior due to a lingering respiratory infection and an anomalous knee flare up. I like riding up hills, especially steep ones, so I was excited for […]

Instant replay

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Rob Deemer, the venerable host of The Composer Next Door radio program informs me that he’ll be replaying the program that I was featured on a few months ago. In case you missed it the first time, check it out tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Deceptively difficult

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

This year’s birthday will certainly be one to remember. Nevermind that I’m turning 30. I’ll be celebrating this October 4th at the Gallerie Icosahedron in TriBeCa with a concert as part of VIM: TriBeCa, a series curated by pianist Kimball Gallagher and composer Judd Greenstein. On offer on the first half of the program will […]

AV on iTunes

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

American Voices is finally available on iTunes. Have at it.

18% grade = 100% pain

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

In the words of Aesop Rock, holy smokes! I did my hill sprint workout today on Ilchester Road in Ellicott City, which is the course for this Saturday’s hill climb time trial. It’s only .9 miles long, but it is brutal. The first section, especially, at an 18% gradient. Every competitive cyclist must be somewhat […]

The cat’s out

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Though it certainly wasn’t a secret, Molly’s revealed herself as the answer to Steve Smith’s little marital puzzle from last week. What, nobody picked up on her slick little hint in last week’s Friday Informer? Read the last sentence with your 20/20 hindsight glasses on.

(Not so) Pleasant Valley RR

Friday, August 10th, 2007

The wedding excitement has been pretty consuming, but I have been racing my bike. Last Saturday was the Pleasant Valley Road Race out in western Maryland. This was the most brutal race I’ve ever done. The course wasn’t really that tough, but at 100-degrees with humidity, the weather proved to be a huge factor. Mostly […]

First comes love

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

To those who’d been wondering after this coy post, here’s Steve Smith with the spoiler.

She said yes

Friday, August 3rd, 2007