Stuart Bogie (clarinet) and Buck McDaniel (organ) announce the release of Monday 11/11/24, part one of the five-part series November Variations (2024) captured live by producer Fritz Myers at Church of our Saviour in Manhattan, New York from November 11 through 15, 2024.
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The week of free, fully improvised concerts were presented daily at 9am showcasing Bogie and McDaniel in deep listening and communication.
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​Monday 11/11/24 begins with a simple motif from McDaniel that blooms into a dynamic, 30 minute piece of music setting the tone for the ambitious cycle of five improvised concerts.
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The project grew from an introduction made by producer Fritz Myers in a meeting several months before the concert series at Church of our Saviour. Bogie and McDaniel improvised for about five minutes and immediately knew they shared a special connection in their sensibilities.
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McDaniel recalls saying, “my chords are your chords” acknowledging the immediately recognizable musical shorthand shared by the two musicians. The high-resolution recordings highlight the conversation and exploration of this approach grounded in patience and love, spiked with an honest dose of restlessness.
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Captured, mixed, and mastered without added reverb, the audio preserves each moment in stunning detail, from the shuffle of the audience to breaths drawn by Bogie to the deep resonance of McDaniel’s organ that fills the nave of the church.
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Bogie reflects, “Every time I listen to this recording, I am filled with gratitude and a feeling of purpose. We made this music in the context of a psychic onslaught, and we made it right in the belly of Manhattan – blocks from Grand Central Station – sharing sonic love amidst the chaos of our city.”​
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Parts 2 – 5 of November Variations (2024) will be released at regular intervals culminating with Friday 11/15/24 in November 2025, marking one year since the concerts were performed.

Album Details:
​ • Single: Monday 11/11/24 (Live)
• Album: November Variations (2024)
• Stuart Bogie & Buck McDaniel
• Label: Mutual Music/RPF Records
• Release Date: Aug 1, 2025
• Format: Streaming
• Genre: Modern Classical / Ambient
• Running Time: 30:43

About the artists:​
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Bogie was born in Evanston, Illinois. He studied clarinet for 6 Years with Gary Onstad before attending Interlochen Art Academy and the University of Michigan where he studied with Debra Chodacki. He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant and he composed the score for the Oscar nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague with long time collaborator Luke O’Malley, and featuring performances by the Kronos Quartet. He has written for film, television, commercials, and the stage and has released 10 albums as a leader. Recent collaborations include Off Hours with artist Jill Magid, Tales from the Underworld with PILOBOLUS, and Far Rockaway for 12 clarinets – released on the compilation For The Birds curated by Randall Poster.

During the pandemic quarantine, Bogie performed a daily series of improvised solo clarinet pieces using the accompaniment drone tracks sent to him by over 50 different collaborators including Arcade Fire, Richard Reed Parry, Colin Stetson, Sam Cohen, Josh Kaufman, Peter Murray, E Dan, Craig Finn, Ryan Sawyer, Dave Harrington, Hiss Golden Messenger, Yuka Honda, and James Murphy. Began in the second week of lock-down, the series ran for over 150 days consecutively and has been collected into four volumes, with more volumes in the works. An LP, Morningside, presenting 2 of the pieces made with James Murphy was released on October 27, 2023 on DFA records. This music is featured in a worldwide exhibition of photographs by Gregory Crewdsen, and can be heard in the documentary accompanying the exhibit. In July of 2023 Bogie premiered Morningside live at Les Recontres d’Arles, for the opening ceremony to the festival.

Buck McDaniel is a New York City–based composer, conductor, and keyboardist whose work blends American Minimalism with a personal approach rooted in the storytelling traditions of his native Mississippi. His music often explores themes of memory, place, and time, engaging both concert, sacred, and non-traditional spaces with equal depth and curiosity. A frequent collaborator, McDaniel has worked with artists such as Sam Smith, Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, and Stuart Bogie, and has appeared on platforms including NBC’s Saturday Night Live, BBC Radio 3, WQXR, and NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. He recently conducted a choral scene in Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

McDaniel’s work has been supported by institutions like MASS MoCA, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, and presented by organizations including the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. A former Kulas Composer Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre, his interdisciplinary projects have been featured in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and Relix. His recordings appear on the Etymology, Gold Bolus, and Telarc labels. He currently serves as Artist-in-Residence at The General Theological Seminary and Director of Music at the Church of Our Saviour, Murray Hill, and the Chapel of the Sacred Hearts, Kips Bay.