Last night I received an email from Google announcing that effective immediately YouTube had the right to monetize all content — including content not within its YouTube Partner Program, such as all…
Music to Zoom By
As colder weather returns to the East Coast and the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, I’m putting together this post to share with you the three pieces (so far) that I composed to be performed live, over Zoom..
The Early Voter – and a belated Happy Halloween
Friends, Today is the last day of early voting in NYC — polls are open…
New Interview: on film, music and the creative process
Friends — here’s a new interview in which I talk about film, music, and the…
Ljova’s Instagram miniatures
I’ve been using Instagram as my on-the-go sketchpad of sorts, making 1-minute (or shorter) loop-minded tunes — here are a few and I’ll add others as they avail themselves.
Back To The Website, Part Eternal
Do you remember personal websites? If you’re olde enough, my hunch is that you’ve relegated them to the basement of your memory — here’s why they deserve to live again.
Oh Sister – Bob Dylan cover collaboration with Los Cenzontles, Pablo Aslan & Ljova
A month ago I shared with you a collaboration with Los Cenzontles and the San…
US Marine Band String Quintet play Ljova’s “Bagel on the Malecón”
“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band performs Ljova’s “Bagel on the Malecón” beautifully as part of their Music in the Schools program — take a listen (with intro)!
New Video: Old Coin
Here’s a little folk tune I wrote in The Catskills two weeks ago — for…
Meditation on Kol Nidrei
Doubt, confusion, an inner repentance – these were the themes I tried to work with in creating my “Meditation” on this most solemn prayer, recited on the Jewish day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. In my composition, the traditionally familiar motifs are fragmented, inverted, and fused together in a way that is connected by question marks. Will we be forgiven?