I'm writing to you to tell you about a recital I'm doing on Monday, June 6, at 8 pm at NEC in Room 118 aka St. Botolph Hall) in the St. Botolph building at the conservatory (this is not in the Jordan Hall building, but around the corner on St.Boltolph Street, across from the Northeastern Arena). The music includes two pieces of mine, Sure of You and The Angel That Troubled the Waters, the first a little old piece for piano, but the second a new, rather large piece, a setting of a short play by Thorton Wilder for countertenor, tenor, baritone, and piano. The performers will be Martin Near, Jason Sabol, Richard Giarusso, and me. But wait! There's more!: Five Little Pieces and Farewell to Stromness, by (Sir) Peter Maxwell Davies (played by me), Voice, Violin, Piano by Morton Feldman (Jennifer Ashe, Lesley Chen, and me), Composition for viola and piano by Milton Babbitt (David Fulmer and me), Sonata Aragon (transcriptions of Cuban Tangos for soprano saxophone and piano) by Dave Smith( Demetrius Spaneas and me), and Ode of Ronsard (second version) by Arthur Berger (D'Anna Fortunato, Sarah Brady, David Russell, and me). An action packed and enjoyable selection of interesting music, I think. Scheduling this was difficult, and as a result, I managed to miss every imaginable deadline for making the existence of this concert known to the world at large. If you can come, I'd be very grateful. I hope you can.

Rodney Lister