I decided to forego watching television tonight, since Jenny is away at a conference, and finished the first draft of Paradisio. I've changed a few things from the original - some dynamics and tempo markings - but it should sound pretty much the same (not that I've ever heard the original).
I just need to proof, then extract parts. Then I can get onto the sax concerto parts (around other work).
Friday, October 25, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Out the other side
I made it through my latest typesetting deadline, and took a break tonight to work on my Paradisio arrangement. I'm up to page 35 of 47, but I have the strings - at least their original parts - finished all the way to the end. I suspect they will stay mostly the same. I just have to decide where to allocate all the old winds, brass, and harp amongst the reduced corp of four instruments.
Until now much of it was easy, and there are still some easy parts to go in the last 12 pages, but it gets dense near the end (as well as pages 35-37), so it may slow down. I might try to finish it on Saturday, depending on my next typesetting deadline.
On this, I'm ahead of schedule, but I haven't started on the parts for From Her Husband's Hand, which are due on the same day: Dec 1. I'll need to start on them SOON.
Until now much of it was easy, and there are still some easy parts to go in the last 12 pages, but it gets dense near the end (as well as pages 35-37), so it may slow down. I might try to finish it on Saturday, depending on my next typesetting deadline.
On this, I'm ahead of schedule, but I haven't started on the parts for From Her Husband's Hand, which are due on the same day: Dec 1. I'll need to start on them SOON.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
More Chaos
As you know, I haven't had time to work on Chaos for a few months due to teaching commitments, other projects, and engraving jobs. I'm still thinking about it though, and one of the current gaps coalesced while I was in the shower this morning.
I used the sets for Chaos for an improvisation with the CME on Thursday. I was hoping that the gap between the first main section (and subsequent piano cadenza) would have some improvisatory material. At one point I described it as a collective improvisation, which I was afraid to write, but now I have pared it down to a solo violin and the solo piano, with possibly one other solo instrument above a string texture that will have loops of various lengths, so it doesn't noticeably repeat. There will also be some wind and brass inserts, much like I have used in Night Visions. I just need to find time to write it down and finish the last few bars of the written piano cadenza that leads into it.
Other than that, I have two partly composed sections near the end of the last movement that need to be completed and then the first draft will be finished.
I used the sets for Chaos for an improvisation with the CME on Thursday. I was hoping that the gap between the first main section (and subsequent piano cadenza) would have some improvisatory material. At one point I described it as a collective improvisation, which I was afraid to write, but now I have pared it down to a solo violin and the solo piano, with possibly one other solo instrument above a string texture that will have loops of various lengths, so it doesn't noticeably repeat. There will also be some wind and brass inserts, much like I have used in Night Visions. I just need to find time to write it down and finish the last few bars of the written piano cadenza that leads into it.
Other than that, I have two partly composed sections near the end of the last movement that need to be completed and then the first draft will be finished.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
CME News
We've had to make an adjustment to our CME program for Nov. 8. Instead of the Bill Brooks' Kitchen Sink, we are performing Small Talk, which is a more recent work, but this won't be a first performance. Since it is shorter, we have also added a piece that is related to the two planned improvisations, No Free Lunch. That means we will have 3 of the 5 movements/pieces of Visions Suite. (Remembering the Night Sky is the fourth, and the fifth is incomplete, but shares some material with No Free Lunch. It will include a large section originally intended for No Free Lunch, but was dropped because I was way over the commissioned length.
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