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About Me

I'm an orchestra conductor, composer, guitarist, and music teacher. I proudly live in Astoria, Queens, the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in America with the best restaurants and atmoshpere of any place in New York City. I conduct the Astoria Symphony (NYC) and the Round Rock Symphony (TX), and just about any other orchestra I can get my hands on. I love riding my bike long distances and drinking espresso with a lot of brown sugar. I'm married to Taylor Morris, an outstanding YA author.

Gargoyle Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0lH_2igeE

Come see the show I'm musically directing this August 9, 10, 13, 17, 20.

- Silas

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I've met many of my living heroes, but I'd still like to meet John Cage, Krzystof Penderecki, and John Corigliano. Would like to have met Stravinsky, Bernstein, Copland, Boulanger, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Handel, Palestrina, Hildegard...many more.I'd also like to meet pretty much anyone who loves great music and has a discriminating sense of what "great" means.

My Blog

Moscow Ballet, Nutcracker, & me

I'm pretty pumped about this new development in my career...I'm a big fan of ballet and have often wondered if I should try my hand at a career in ballet orchestra conducting. I've recently been hired...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:38:00 GMT

Victory over Sprint!

I fought sprint for months, and today I won. Got my money back, got my early termination fee cancelled, got a refund. I'm so happy! OK, I shouldn't have had to put in 30-40 hours of work just to ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:43:00 GMT

I hate Sprint

I have a new passion in life. I hate sprint so much that I want to dedicate a good portion of my energy to destroying Sprint Nextel. They are crooks and thieves and they stolen my monye for years. It'...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Dressed up dogs...

People who dress up their dogs really bug me. Dogs with sweaters. Dogs with hats. Dogs with tee-shirts. It just seems wrong to me. I don't know why it bugs me. It's none of my business. But the poor d...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:07:00 GMT

George Carlin's genius

Got this from someone else's blog, but it's great. I don't have pet peeves  I have major psychotic fucking hatreds! Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:12:00 GMT