This week sees the premiere of THE RIVERS OF BOWERY, with the excellent Rutgers Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Bill Berz, at the 2005 National CBDNA Conference here in New York. The performance is Thursday afternoon, at the Skirball Center at NYU. It’s a bright and shiny overture/concert-opener, with gongs and bells and other metallic things one bangs on—so it’s likely to be a fun (and loud) 3 minutes. Meanwhile, work continues on AVENUE X, the nearly-due new work commissioned by The Chicagoland Consortium, which seems to have morphed beyond my control into 6-minutes of perspiration-inducing syncopation…