NEWS

September 17, 2001

Alan is back in Los Angeles working on two record deals and a movie deal. We don't know when he's coming back, possibly in early October, but rest assured he will not return empty handed. And finally, by the way, last June Alan won the ASCAP PLU$ award for the 6th year running. This is the award given to a composer whose work is not generally surveyed in the performing media (i.e. jukeboxes, etc.) Anyway, we wish our boy well; more news will be forthcoming as we receive it.

December 4, 2001

The Alan Seidler Online handbook wishes to extend it's heartfelt felicitations to our fearless leader, Alan Seidler, on the occasion of his birthday this 4th day of December, 2001. On behalf of the entire staff and crew, our clients, friends, subscribers, creditors and assigns, we wish Alan, wherever he may be, the very best on this glorious day, a day which was in no way overshadowed, diminished, pre-empted or by any measure compromised by the celebration in Englewood, New Jersey of the 20th birthday of Ms. Britney Spears two days prior.        The Editor

November 1, 2001

The Rolling Stone interview with Alan Seidler is now available. Writer Augustin Sedgewick spent some time with Alan Seidler in New York City and noted that his interview revealed ". . . a varied, incontestably unique career but also much of the man himself, since Alan's art has always been so true to his life, and since his life has always been so true to his art." See the full text of the interview at Interviews and Reviews.

October 11, 2001

Word has reached us from an informed source that Rolling Stone Magazine's Augustin Sedgewick interviewed Alan for a total of six hours (!) during late August and early September. Though there's no word yet on when (or how much of) the interview will hit the stands, we hope to have at least a portion of it up on the Interviews and Reviews page of this site soon. Stay tuned for further developments.

October 3, 2001

Alan will be a guest at the annual conference of Chamber Music America to be held in New York City in January 2002. At last Winter's conference, Alan participated in a panel discussion on the subject Elitism in Chamber Music: Fact or Fiction? Judging by the diversity of his interests (to say nothing of his musical credits), we can firmly take the position that our man is anything but an elitist! As the next conference centers around the rebirth of improvisation as a living musical art, we're certain that Alan, a lifelong improviser, will make a meaningful contribution to the proceedings at hand.

September 24, 2001

Alan will be making a return trip to L.A. in late October-early November. He has hinted that the trip is a mixture of business and pleasure, but more than that we are not at liberty to say (or even know). During his last trip to the City of Angels last Spring, Alan met and appeared with legendary radio host Dr. Demento, one of his chief boosters back in the Blue Goose era. He also tried (without success, sad to say) to organize a nationally televised free concert in memory of his friend and onetime patron, guitar wizard John Fahey, who died in February at age 61.

July 1, 2001

In June 2001, Alan was once again a recipient of the ASCAPPLU$ Award, a cash grant given by ASCAP to recognize the achievements of its composer members whose work rarely appears in the media ASCAP regularly surveys. Alan has now received this award for the past five consecutive years.