My wife Jaye Alison Moscariello and I host “A Farm and Garden Show”, a radio show on WBCR-LP, Berkshire Community Radio, streaming at berkshireradio.org every Monday from 10-11 AM Eastern Time. You can also hear it anytime from the website by looking under Programs and clicking on Recent Episodes. Only the last 2 weeks will be available, and sometimes these will be different shows but usually the same show. We post a new show once a month; during 2024 it will be later in the month shifting earlier and earlier as we will repost every 4 weeks until we get back to putting up a new show on the first Monday (this should happen around Oct or Nov 2024). I also plan to post past shows in future blog posts here at this website. We interview pioneers in regenerative farming, permaculture, microbiology, and topics relevant to growing and eating the most health-giving crops. Some months we interview national or international figures; others we interview local heroes doing this work on their own farm or homestead.
(updated Jan 20, 2024) I spent 3 amazing weeks with composers, performers, conductors at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York, from June 4-24, 2023. What a great place to hear my music and works by 28 other composers in attendance, played by an orchestra and various chamber groups. Also to get lessons from 6 composer-teachers, have classes on writing for harp, percussion, brass; and learning many other aspects of music. Then there were plenty of concerts that included works by the 6 composers attending as faculty, including Samuel Adler, author of The Study of Orchestration, and Robert Paterson, music director for the festival. His Triple Concerto expressed the complexity of the climate chaos issue and moved me to tears. I wrote an ensemble piece for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola, bass, and piano which depicts monoculture industrial farming in the first movement and regenerative farming in the second. I am attaching the score of “Regenerate, Heal, Cool” Regenerate, Heal, Cool 5-4ensemble for Jun 2023 and also a 4th movement of my piano concerto piano concerto mvt 4 mmf shortened edition of which the Mostly Modern Orchestra did a reading. Recordings of the orchestra piece reading and chamber piece performance are here:
Piano Concerto Movement 4 was read by Mostly Modern Orchestra, Mason Lubert, conductor, Yun Hao, piano, June 6, 2023.. Regenerate, Heal, Cool was performed by American Modern Ensemble, Sebastian Serrano-Ayala conductor, June 9, 2023. As we move towards a new Farm Bill in the US, I would love the Regenerate, Heal, Cool piece to be performed and distributed far and wide. If some of the words are hard to hear on the recording, refer to the score for them. Ultimately an alto would sing these, rather than the musicians who sang or spoke in the recording. Please let me know if you would like parts for recording this work!.
At the festival I started work on a horn-piano duo, with elements of salsa. Here is the score: horn=piano duo
and here is the recording with synthesized instruments
Here is a brass quintet piece written in honor of the Atlantic Brass Quintet, rearranged from a string piece followed by synthesized audio: Swedish brass band dream
