I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a brand new live online course this May at Stanford Continuing Studies: Four By Sondheim. The four musicals we’ll cover are Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday In the Park with George. It doesn’t get better than this. 4 Saturdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22 from 10-12:30 Pacific Time (1-3:30 … Read More
This Monday night I’m giving a Beatle talk at Chapman University to my dear friend and ex-colleague Daniel Alfred Wach’s orchestra class! Daniel and I taught together at Swarthmore all those years ago. We’re gonna work our way up to… Tomorrow Never Knows. Yummy.
So I did a “thing.” This thing: I wrote a song – music and lyrics – to help celebrate the dark moment passing and the brighter moment arriving. And now I’m releasing it into the wild! I’d like to thank the amazingly multi-talented star tenor Ben Gulley for singing *and* putting together the video. Enjoy … Read More
Dear friend, and violinist extraordinaire, Stephanie Chase interviewed me for this month’s edition of Stay Thirsty Magazine. You can find it HERE!
My latest newsletter is up. Highlights: working to keep our elections free & fair; a Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities; lots of teaching, including Beatles @Stanford, Writing for the Stage @Catholic, Sondheim in the spring; and Inferno is coming at you, fall 2021! Click HERE!
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I was very happy to be the guest speaker for Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) today. We had a great time doing a deep dive into the creation of the song Help! JL: “Stop it! Stop, stop… string gone” GH: “I’ll have to double-track singing it. I’ll have to do this bit singing, which … Read More
Dear Friends: In an abundance of caution, and following suit with a number of other Bay Area organizations, the March 29, 2020 premiere of my Inferno, Double Concerto for Viola, Cello, and Chamber Orchestra with Jennifer Kloetzel, Jonathan Moerschel, Maestra Barbara Day Turner, and San José Chamber Orchestra has been postponed. However, Silver Lining: We … Read More
I’ve been busy, and got a bit behind with this. So here you go: https://mailchi.mp/d90791d07f39/midwinter-2020-news-from-joel-phillip-friedman?e=cfa78605c4
“Home” the evening-length puppetry theatre multimedia play I scored had a successful run at the Tank NYC in May. It was a real pleasure to work with an all-star creative team and cast on this moving and beautiful work. I can’t wait to see what happens next!