Next week will be busy, though it will also be a really nice respite from the daily grind.  Portus 2008 is a Harry Potter symposium (replete with papers, panels, presenters, parties, pageantry, pomp, etc.) that will be held at the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas, Texas from 10-13 July.  It’s being put on by the […]

I am quite happy to not only toot my own horn about my own music, but to also let everyone know of good music written by another. Jeremiah Joseph is a composition major at Houston Baptist University, and if this excerpt is any indication of the quality of the whole, then his new monodrama […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwYruAEPnA
Enjoy!
Jeff

“Whenever I try to explain the Society to folks who have never experienced it, I always seem to end up dragging out my photo album. Why? Well, because, as the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.”
- From Mistress Anastasia Guta, Province of Malagentia, East Kingdom - This collection of photos dates […]

How on earth do I describe the Society for Creative Anachronism? Well, I think the best way is to watch the above 8-minute piece from CBS Sunday Morning and see for yourself. A picture speaks a thousand words, and this report speaks perfectly of this remarkable organization.
Jeff

Here it is, our first post-Deathly Hallows installment! Warning: massive SPOILERS
Rachael, Rose, and Chris talk at-length about the book, and various Snapecasters give their thoughts. I get quite a bit of airtime in this episode (is that a good thing?). Enjoy!
Jeff

Snapecast Episode 19
A little belated, I know - I was in England at the time it came out.

Rachael.
The visionary behind the Harry Potter Snape-related podcast Snapecast, and an amazing person, I cannot find enough good things to say about her and Charles, her new husband. I’ve known Rachael since March 2006 when […]

What a week.
What a week for the music ministry of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, having completed a week-long choral residency at the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew in Wells, England - it was the second-best choir tour I’ve been of which I’ve had a part (eclipsed only by that taken by the Bach Society […]

The West façade of Wells Cathedral
I never thought this day would arrive: in three hours’ time, Dad will get me to the airport for the Palmer choir’s trip to Wells, England. Thanks be to God I had the good sense to make up a packing list: the first time I’ve done so. That, […]

The penultimate Snapecast ere the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, this episode focuses on the Snape/Hermione ’ship. Enjoy!
Jeff