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Hello everyone and welcome to my website.

It has been a rich and interesting season musically, one that has been filled with conducting, recording, orchestrating and most recently, composing.

As many of you know, the prose of Eugene O'Neill has served as an inspiration for me in the past. Most recently, I have been working with a book that he dedicated to his wife Carlotta upon the death of their family dog, Blemie. The book is called, "The Last Will and Testament of a Distinguished Dog." My own wife presented it to me upon the loss of our standard poodle, Lola, a little more than a year ago. I was quite moved by the work, enough so that it has inspired me to compose a symphonic piece in many movements.

Many of you heard the "Intermezzo" (the middle movement of the symphony) during the Bocelli tour this past Fall. Thank you for your incredible words of support. I was truly moved to hear how many of you share my love and admiration for man and woman's best friend!

I am delighted to say that I have just completed the last movement for the symphony which includes the setting of the O'Neill text for voice. I hope to finish writing the work (the first movement) in late summer or early Fall and I hope to complete the orchestration of the entire piece by year's end. Many of you have expressed interest in the recording which I hope will follow.

I just completed a most enjoyable run with Puccini's "La Rondine" in Detroit and I am now looking forward to a different production of the same opera in Trieste, Italy.

Thank you all for supporting my album, “Many Voices,” and I'll see you out there in Concertland.

Yours,
Maestroman