composer FAIL #67

The lovely Katherine Krueger

I want to take the time to thank everyone who has been supportive over the past few months—from those reading my blog to attending my performances (or watching them online)—and to those posting and reposting that feature in the CCM blog about my feature in Opera News. This, especially the latest posts, has been quite amazing and surreal, and I am thankful to all of you who have been quite wonderful and encouraging for all this time. You all rock.

On that note, I feel I should explain how the Opera News article came into being; this is both a short and a long tale because it depends how deep into the backstory you dig. The short version is that Kyle MacMillan was writing a preview piece on a concert that never happened. So, as any emerging composer would react, I was thrilled that I was having a premiere in Chicago, even more delighted that there was going to be a preview piece in the Chicago-Sun Times, and terribly bummed when the premiere of my yet-to-be-p…