1999 

• I started the year writing The Battle of X and Y for Philadelphia new-music ensemble Relâche, instrumentation: tenor sax, drums, double bass, oboe, piano, bassoon, viola. At this writing (early 2001) I need to add flute to include everyone who is now in Relache for the premiere in May 2001.
• I then wrote Getting In & Out Of Trouble for Bob Stewart's "pit orchestra" at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts where I am BMI Composer-in-Residence. This was commissioned by the Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia. Bob and his group premiered the piece in May.

• I wroteFireworks, for American Opera Projects, setting a Midsummer-Night's-Dream-deft comedy by librettist and playwright Billy Aronson about an alien who comes to earth to investigate the 4th of July. We premiered the Scenes 1-6, 12 and 15-16 at the Orensanz Foundation in June.
• I closed out Dadadah's two-year CB's Lounge Residency in June 1999. A few of our guests in 1999 were Butch Morris, Derek Bermel and the group First Avenue.

• Dadadah's 2nd CDLove Not Love Lust Not Lustwas released on Buzz Records, a division of the Dutch jazz label Challenge, in summer 1999 to great critical acclaim (reviews from Rolling Stone, Schwann, New York Times and signal to noise among others---see reviews).
• To celebrate the CD release Valeria Vasilevski directed me and Dadadah in Kitty Brazelton in 3D!!! based on songs from Love Not Love Lust Not Lust, and we premiered it at Joe's Pub in early October and took it to HotHouse in Chicago for Halloween.

• Also celebrating the release, I began the enormous project of putting up this website and managed to miss most of my family's summer vacation in the process!