December 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Santa brought me my first violin this Christmas.  I was completely surprised....Just kidding. ;)

On the day it arrived I had to restring it because the G string slipped out of the fine tuner.  On day 2 I broke the E string and needed to restring it.  After rubbing rosin on the bow I was surprised it was still slippery. I soon found out that I needed to scratch that rosin cake.  The first time I tuned it took about 20 minutes and I suspect it was half tuned.  I was afraid to brake the…

Today was a good day, I made progress on my magnum opus, my lovely piano concerto that I started planning out months ago (no key signature yet, I'll see where my harmony takes me)!



Though in particular, the 2nd movement.



It starts on a low D (much like a Satie waltz) and then goes into the B below mid c + an f# (in 3/4) 



then much like a satie waltz it goes down to D again, and hits B + G, but in two higher octaves of…

Just what I need:  A new focus.  I say that both sarcastically and literally.  I am really excited at the prospect of composing for  TV and film.  After so much searching for a purpose, I think I have found something that I really have always wanted to do.

If anyone has advice, let me know.  Some of you out there on this blog are quite accomplished in this art-form.  To be honest, I have done a lot of composing, and have had a fair amount of performances, so it is not the…

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