•Featured article in Art Nashville Now:

New Song Cycle is a Modern Kvetch to God
re: Bucolics: Five Poems of Maurice Manning

•Recording session

for upcoming CD of Michael Alec Rose’s string music, recorded in the parish church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Click here.

•BUCOLICS: the convergence of poet, performers, and composer

March 22, 2012
Blair School of Music
Poet Maurice Manning (author of BUCOLICS)
Tenor Tony Boutté
Pianist Alan Johnson
Composer Michael Alec Rose (composer of BUCOLICS: FIVE POEMS OF MAURICE MANNING)

•February 25-March 10:

I’m co-directing the Exchange Program between the Blair School and the Royal Academy of Music (composing up a storm while I’m at it!). Departure for the London leg of the program: March 3, 2012. Follow the program with daily updates at this link.

•Final recording session

for upcoming compact disc of string music: March 12, 2012 (in a beautiful church near London, England)