Jane Stillwater

A feisty 64-year-old grandmother from Berkeley has succeeded in traveling to Iraq. Her ultimate goal: to get "embedded" as a journalist. Her quest has gotten a lot of press. It appears she is indeed in Baghdad and posting to her blog.

Her posts are so much fun, and the voice so believable, that my suspicions are aroused...I can't bring myself to believe it's real. I expect to hear any day now that it's a hoax.

"RBF" now available from ALRY Publications

My flute quartet, "Remove Before Flight", has been performed five times that I know of since it was completed in 2005. Now, it's available for any flute quartet that feels like portraying an aviator's dreams in sound!

The new ALRY Publications catalog for 2007 has been released, and "Remove Before Flight" can be ordered therefrom. It comes with a score, parts for two C flutes, alto flute, and bass flute, performance notes, and fingerings for all the multiphonics.

4 "Not Made of Stone" songs on MySpace

You may have already read or heard that the upcoming new album from Polly Moller & Company, "Not Made of Stone", is coming out on August 1st.

Now you can pre-listen four of its tracks -- "Not Made of Stone", "How Now Is Soon", "Suspension", and "The Jaguar" -- right now on our MySpace profile.

Check 'em!

And on THIS day in history...

...the world was blessed with The Wonder That Is Daniel!
Happy birthday Dan, you Aries, you!
Koona phoony!!!!

And of course he gets a Celeste Hutchins piece also.

"Dusky in Flight"

Here's a link to the short piece Celeste wrote in honor of Murphy!

On this day in history...

...an egg hatched somewhere in San Francisco, revealing to the world one Murphy Soren, a Dusky Pionus parrot! I try not to think about what I would do without her.

It's her 15th birthday today, and in honor of this occasion I've commissioned a new piece from my friend Celeste Hutchins. You can commission a piece from her too. They are going for the very affordable price of 7 Euros. For full details, check out Celeste's blog.