My first Odyssey show in almost three months was for a wonderful group of students at the Illinois Junior Classical League convention in the Chicago suburbs on Sunday, February 27, 2022.
After a whirlwind November that included my European tour and a longer driving trip into the Great Plains for shows in South Dakota and Kansas, the first two weeks of December found me wrapping up my 2021 show slate with…
If last school year was a time of virtual performances to groups of people each one in their own separate space, this semester has bought about a transition period of performing by Zoom to groups of people in the same…
For all the time I (and many of my co-classical reception folks) spend preaching how classical art and literature portray universal human experiences, a lot of this material and culture is profoundly strange and entirely alien.
I’ve tried about fifteen different ways to write about my journey to Alaska to perform the Odyssey in Homer. No words seem to capture how emotional it was to be back on the road after sixteen months of Zoom performances…