Conference Day 1

Since I'm going to papers and concerts all week, I thought I'd keep you up with what I'm busy doing by posting a few videos of the performers I'll be hearing. Tonight, we start off with Mikel Rouse, a composer and performer I've enjoyed since he brought his talk show opera Dennis Cleveland to Illinois while I was there. A year later, I performed in his setting of Cage's An Alphabet. Since that time, I've regularly taught his music to my classes, especially as he's an alum of UMKC. Here's a bit of what he's recently been doing.