My last post was around the time of my concert at CCM. It went well. The recordings are now all on YouTube.com. If you want the full concert, listen to them in this order:
Remembering the Night Sky
Labyrinth
From Her Husband's Hand
Meanwhile, I've been teaching and setting a new arrangement of Paradiso for orchestra. It's similar to the unperformed original version, but I needed to remove the piano and soprano saxophone. I had already removed the harp in the two smaller versions, but I was able to reinstate the tuba part. Like the original, this version is essentially for chamber orchestra, rather than sinfonietta.
Coming up, I am still working on the piece for Tenor Sax and string quartet. At one point, I had a name for it, but I never wrote it down, and I've since lost that train of thought. Maybe it will come back to me.
During the next few months, I'll be setting parts for an opera (not mine), so composing time will be hard to come by. I've had some more thoughts on the wind ensemble piece and Temps. I still have a desire to write my 4th symphony and another piano concerto (a real concerto this time), but I'm hesitant to start on either before I have a sniff of a performance, or a performance of Sym. No 3 or Chaos.
And, of course, there is that two minutes of Bass Trombone Concerto or Concertino that is waiting to be continued.
I'm supposed to be working on that opera, so I guess I need to get back to it...
