Another re-think

I pulled out Chaos to work on it this week with the intention of reverting to the wind ensemble version. I listened to the playback in Finale of the original version as it stood before changing the orchestration. I wasn't exactly happy with it. Then I listened to the orchestra and piano version in Sibelius. I liked it a lot.

While part of me sees the advantage of preparing a wind ensemble piece (more chance of performance, etc), I think I've become invested with the piano and orchestra version. I think it works better that way, and I've become accustomed to the orchestration. I guess I'll stick with it and hope that it doesn't go the way of Paradisio, a chamber orchestra piece that I wrote to finish my Dante set, but never had a sniff of a performance, even after spending three years on the SPNM shortlist.

To satisfy the urges to write for wind ensemble and resurrect Paradisio, I've decided that I might kill two birds with one stone: arrange it for wind ensemble. It makes sense. Inferno was originally written for wind ensemble and has had three performances in that version, while the orchestra version, like Paradisio, has never been played. That leaves the question of what to do with Purgatorio. That was a chamber piece, and it was expanded slightly for chamber orchestra. I don't know whether it will work for wind ensemble, but I might as well complete the set eventually. I'll arrange Paradisio, and then see what happens.

In the meantime, I had a hard disk failure a couple of days ago, which means my installation of Finale is broken, so I can't work on either of my current publishing projects - both of which were set in Finale. I was going to translate A Point of Amber Light into Sibelius, but I can't do that yet. Oyre's Garden will stay in Finale, since I already have a complete set of parts for it. I thought about changing it to adjust some of the formatting, but it might just be opening a can of worms, and frankly, I should be composing some new music now.