I'm going to be in Cincinnati this coming Sunday, April 28, for the premiere of my “Lecha Dodi” at the Cincinnati Camerata concert “Hallelujah: Songs of Praise and Passover”. Should be great fun, and if any of you happen to be in the area, I hope to see you there!

This time from OperaWire. I continue to be very pleased at the thoughtfulness of these reviews and the extent to which they really get what I'm trying to do-- such an audience is the best any creative person could wish for. Hoping for more like this!

I'm delighted to announce that a new work of mine for SSAA treble choir will be performed by the SF-based ensemble Musae on May 4 and 5, in Walnut Creek and Tiburon respectively:

https://www.musae.org/current-season.html

The piece is called “One Equal Music” and sets a text by John Donne. Musae is a terrific group and I'm very much looking forward to the premiere.

I talked to Chris Munce about All is Mere Breath, Hebrew as a choral language generally, and my composing approach and plans. It was a fun time. Check it out on YouTube: 

There's a new review up of my Navona album of “All is Mere Breath” as part of Gramophone Magazine's February issue:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/weininger-all-is-mere-breath

I'm delighted and honored to say that it's all I could have hoped for. The reviewer clearly gets what I was trying to do with the piece and thinks that I've succeeded in doing that. I wrote it hoping it could bridge some of 2020's terrible gaps and make us feel less alone in our experience, and here I am feeling less alone reading about how someone else perceived it. Feeling grateful, and now determined to “send out my bread upon the waters” some more.