Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The future

Now that I'm at the end of term, I need to evaluate what I need to do during the month I have before rejoining the fray. There are two things that must happen before school begins in January:

1) I must create a lesson plan for my new theory class and composition seminar.
2) I must re-score the winds for Nørgård's Remembering Child for our March CME performance.

There are two things that I would also like to do:

1) Finish the piano concerto.
2) Finish setting my third symphony. It will take too long for this break, if I do the other things, but I should get started on it. I'm up to p. 69, and I probably have 50 to go. I'll need to use WinScore to do it, or start over in Sibelius, which I'd rather not do.

I also need to think of some new pieces. I have a bunch that are started, and a couple students clamoring for a song cycle. That's a possibility, but do they really know what they are getting in for? What I really need is someone to commission me, and give me a deadline. Money talks and deadlines get the job done.

Other considerations: I've been asked to conduct the performance of Paradisio in January, so I'll need to program in time to prepare the score.

Lot's to do, but what I really need to do is rest after a tough term.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Two down

Alright ... all the parts are finished for Paradisio, and I've uploaded the corrected score onto CreateSpace. It should be available for purchase in a week or two.

So what is next? I need to arrange Per Nørgård's Remembering Child for a smaller wind section for our performance in March. That's my December project. I may also spend a little time on finishing Chaos. We'll see how much time I have around typesetting work (lots), jury duty, and setting up my lesson plan for Diatonic Harmony II.

New pieces down the road? I don't know. I need to finish the piano concerto, and finish typesetting my third symphony. Songs? We'll see.

...and of course I haven't written any prose lately.