Even closer

I have been looking some more through that old wind ensemble proof of Chaos, and have also found more pencil annotations, one of them completing a section that I thought I still needed to fill in some orchestration. I'm going to go back and look more closely at some other sections of the proof and see if there is more. Yesterday's discovery finished off the better part of about 30 bars, and I still have two more pages of annotations to input before I start piecing together the ending.

I'm starting to feel the excitement of being close to the finish line. I'm sure that mood will change when I start writing the piano soliloquy. I might write the free/quasi-improvised part of it first, since I've always been uncomfortable writing for solo piano.

I've also had some thoughts about the future - what to do next. I must have about 40 partly-written pieces, including:

Partly written:

1) Song cycle based on some of my own poetry.

2) Another piano concerto (the first one I started several years ago years ago). It was too difficult for the Scarborough Symphony, and it was for chamber orchestra (poss. sinfonietta), so I never considered finishing it for the commission.

3) A large orchestra piece, heavily-sketched with beginnings to each movement, and three interludes complete. I tried and failed to convert it to the first piano concerto.

4) WE arrangement of Paradisio.

5) Sinfonietta reduction and arrangement for vc of From Her Husband's Hand.

6) WE arrangement of From Her Husband's Hand.

7) Night Vision, various versions including a jazz combo and nonet version. It includes the original source material for Remembering the Night Sky, but there is a lot more. It was originally supposed to be an hour long entertainment.

8) Riding the Crimson Sun, for nonet, beginning, plus sketches.

9) Typesetting of last movement of Sym. No 3, plus filling in a few final notes.

10) Revision of String Quartet No 2.

11) Another hulk of a piano concerto.

12) A trombone feature piece, either with electronics or orchestra. I've written some sketches, but never recorded any of the electronic stuff. Is that a sign?

Needs typesetting with some revision:

1) Concerto for Euphonium and Strings (significant revision, actually). Second movement is done, since it was fine as it stood.

2) Symphony No. 1, esp. third movement, which could stand alone, if I ever got around to the revision.

3) All three string quartets

4) Saxophone quartet

5) Three pieces for Chamber Orchestra (just typesetting)

6) Chamber version of Purgatorio.

7) Symbols and Signs (just typesetting, originally performed from ms)

8) Inferno (WE version, just typesetting, originally performed from ms)

Pipe dreams:

1) Must write some chamber music.

2) Must write some longer piano pieces (i.e. not miniatures)

3) A fourth symphony (3 in the first section might be it, but I'm not sure it really is a symphony. It's more like a concerto for orchestra). Won't start it until Symphony No. 3 is premiered.

4) Some brass music. I haven't written that much for my own instruments.

Any request? Comment below. Commissions gratefully accepted.