Essays
Essays
Long-form writing from a composer who has listened closely since the late 1980s.
- Front Row: A Fan’s 20 Years with Pat Metheny (2005–2026)The signature timeline: concerts, marquees and one “YEAH!”, from Sean’s own archive.
- The Way UpThe Pat Metheny Group’s 2005 masterpiece: press reviews and a listening guide.
- The Way Up Tour 2005: concert reviewOpening night, American Music Theatre, Lancaster, PA, February 13, 2005.
- Formal analysis of The Way UpA composer’s look at the stratified ostinato layers in Part One.
- An open thank-you letter to Pat MethenyWritten March 15, 2005.
- Kin (←→)The 2014 Unity Group album that brought this site back.