Greetings, Friends and Music Lovers.
I’m pleased to tell you portions of The Midway!, my ballet score on a child’s first visit to an amusement park, will be presented in concert on Sat. Feb. 11, an 8pm concert presented by NACUSA-sf (nat’l composers org.) at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto, just west of 101 at the San Antonio Rd. exit., and north (right) on Middlefield: http://www.covenantpresbyterian.net
The one-hour concert features works of seven other SF branch composers. Tickets are available at the door: $17 Gen., $12 Sen. Stu.
I’d be honored if you could attend. I can guarantee you’ll be delighted by the piece, scored for piano 4 hands.
Hope to see you there. Ken Malucelli http://www.nacusasf.org
i mean i cannot — unlike a jon pareles or josh kosman — describe or critique how the changes affect me or differ or are similar to john adams or the other john luther adams for that matter — but only that i can say “ken malucelli did this, check him out” or such.
I could post it to palo alto patch perhaps.

From: Ken Malucelli
To: mark weiss
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Ken’s ballet score in concert Feb 11

Yazzuh (and I just sent you a midi)?

um this is a page literally torn out of journalist ethics book but can i quote from this exchange as part of a post-modern interview with ken m??

Fugue yeh. BMG. : >)))
(torn out meaning because it would violate journalism ethics)

Oh, I think we’ll survive. LOL!!!
i would write a brief review for “plastic alto” if you sent me a link or a cdr.
i had a weird obsession with Mark Morris for a while. longer story. Knew the name “Ethan Iverson” in that context before he became more wellknow with Bad Plus. I went on a date with MM dancer J___ O_____ after her mom suggested it semi-seriously. lunch date. talking music. actually, funnily, i showed up backstage and her other suitor was D_____ M_____ publicist of Grateful Dead. like the time i showed up on an impromptu lunch date with a “friend” and the other Suitor was Randall Kline — circa 1990.
i digress.good luck with show.
mark weiss

earthwise productions and mgmt

“plastic alto ” blog for Patch
(I submitted this to Palo Alto Patch in February but they would not publish it, owing to its experimental format; fits the format here in Plastic Alto however, methinks…meanwhile Ken has written and performed a few more operas and arias….)

edit to add: “Midway” was also the name of the business, in Chicago’s South Side, that my namesake MB Weiss founded, a Chevrolet agency and leasing. Ken can write about that; previously I imagined that Stew and John Corbett, and maybe Terry Abrahamson, could team to create “South Side Story” about Alton Abraham, Sun Ra’s business manager, whose papers are at the University, way off topic but back to my own roots.

see also or ping-backly my riff on Ari Cartun, Bob Dylan and Matthew Shipp.

He really has a ken for this: