My good friend, collaborator, and percussionist/bandleader extraodinario Joe Bergen held a beautiful concert that last saturday, june 19, 2010. His mom passed away two years ago and joe organized a cancer research benefit concert in memory of her at Tenri Cultural Institute. 

Joe also commissioned a set of Vibraphone Miniatures from a group of composers and these were premiered on this concert as well.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen THREE vibraphones on stage at one time, and I wondered if vibraphonists, as a general rule could not, would not, preferred not to play on other vibraphonists vibraphones.  The composers were: yours truly, Aaron Siegel, Michael Sperone, Daniel Wohl, Nomi Epstein, Charles Corey, Craig Woodward, Matthew Welch, Mariel Berger, Joshua Lopes. 

Transit played.  Dither rocked it.  There was Nathan Koci’s bad ass accordion playing.  Angelica Negron and Mantra.  Also, Fragile, my improv group played a set based around a new idea i’ve been developing: the animated score.