a near-perfect match (Upper West Side Story)
a near-perfect match A year before my local video store closed, a friend told...
Licensing
Dear Filmmaker, Choreographer, Theater Director, Juggler and other interested party -- please come closer....
If The Box Doesn't Fit, You Must...?
I haven’t written a proper blog post in nearly two years, but the...
How To Use Me - My Residency with the City of London Sinfonia
Click the play button above to listen while you read! Earlier this spring, I...
subway story
The kids and I walked into a subway car earlier this week, and a...
Plume - Tenth Anniversary
Ten years ago today, I composed and recorded “Plume”, which has become perhaps my...
Coming Clean on Creative Collaborations — Things I Didn’t Know
UPDATE: This was an April Fools' Day post. To the hundreds of you who...
Ljova's Barbes Residency - Sundays at 5
Dear Friends, I am supremely excited to let you know that for the next...
I Am The Warehouse (in praise of Bandcamp, part 2)
(originally written as a guest post on Norman Lebrecht's blog Slipped Disc, under the...
Music for Mother's Day
Dear Friends -- and welcome readers of the New York Times, If your experience...
An Invitation!
This post has been updated - take me to the updated post Dear Friends,...
January 2014 update
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! My apologies for not writing sooner - the...
a long overdue Ljova and the Kontraband post-tour update
Several months ago, my ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband ran a Kickstarter campaign to...
Reverse genrectomy
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post suggesting that genre labels...
Joy & Madness: Three Weeks in the Life of Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (a diary for the Journal of the American Viola Society)
Earlier this spring, I was asked by the Journal of the American Viola Society...
midsummer update
Dear Friends, First off, an invite to a singular show you don't want to...