Only hours before taking my seat at On the Boards, I'd learned that a person very dear to me had died. Everything I did and saw after was touched by this news. To combine the angry agitation and the broken tenderness we feel in grief is a paradox. To live in fear of death is a paradox. So to is it to know "there is never enough time and there is always enough time," a phrase Mark Haim explains in his program notes that he and his traveling partner used as creative constraint on their desert road trip.

One of my best friends since college has been visiting me. He was a double-degree Music Composition and Philosophy major and is currently learning to play the cello. For the past few days, we've been talking a lot about Bach. I brought him with me to x2 last night, filling in the details of Mark's past work, including the first version of 2 at NW New Works a few years back and, fittingly, The Goldberg Variations. Not surprisingly, after the performance, our conversation turned to repetition and variation.

Preview the trailer for zoe|juniper A Crack in Everything.  Check the performance page for additional features and be sure to look for the full performance mid-April!