This past month has been wild for me. It started with a Syracuse University Contemporary Music Ensemble concert in which we were performing part of my Visions Suite. The first and third movements are directed improvisations, and the second movement is No Free Lunch. We had some last minute personnel changes, and even a last minute rescoring of the cello part for alto sax and violin. We pulled it together and put on a good show.
Two days later, I played bass trombone in the premiere of Brent Michael David's Purchase of Manhattan. It has been so long since I've had a paying gig that I forgot about how good it feels to be handed that check. Of course, having the opportunity to play with pros again was even more satisfying.
Amongst that I had a set of parts that needed to be completed for a publisher, and final exams for my Eartraining students, which I still need to grade.
The big headache was delivering the parts for From Her Husband's Hand to the SU Orchestra for its Mar 2 premiere. I just finished them today, printed them out and updated the score, which will be available on Amazon very soon.
My final project for this month is finishing Paradisio. I've arranged the score and extracted the parts. All that is left is to clean up and proof them. They are due Monday as well, and the performance is on Jan 26.
Soon, I'll be able to relax.
