Talks, Workshops, etc.

Notation, Composition, and Improvisation

Talk given at Cornish College for the Arts, February 2000

The Development of Harmony in Coltrane’s Music

Talk given at Cornish College for the Arts, February 2000

Improvising From A Post-Tonal Perspective

Workshop given at Vancouver Jazz Festival, June 1999

Jewish Music: Four Lectures

Four hour and a half classes given to Congregation Sherith Israel’s study group.  Topics: 1) Music in the Bible; 2) Klezmer Traditions; 3) Current Ideas in the Jewish Avant-Garde (with Ben Goldberg); 4) Two Views of the Shoah: Arnold Schoenberg and Steve Reich.