So what I have heard, both through the grapevine and through more public means, is that there will be publishers at the AGEHR par-TAY next month looking to print music from young, talented composers. And despite that I'm only the former of those two adjectives, it seems prudent to still bring a diversity of music to the conference for men and women with buying power to peruse.
My thought is to bring in the neighborhood of 10 pieces, including:
"The Upper Youghiogheny" (completed, full choir, 3-5 octaves, level 4- or so)
"An April Frost" (completed, a rescored sextet version, 3 octaves)
"Bluebirds' Autumn Flight" or "Psalm 148" (completed, bell tree and piano duet, 3 octaves)
"Breathe on Me, Breath of God" (completed, full choir, 3-to-5 octaves, level 1)
"Meditation on 'There Is a Balm in Gilead'" (about 20 percent finished, full choir, 4-to-5 octaves, level 3)
"42º19' S, 121º53' W" or "The Americanization of Toyko" or some other title to come (0 percent finished, full choir, 5-to-7 octaves, level 5 or 6)
a rewriting (and retitling) of "Ordinary Time Ordinariness" (60 percent finished, full choir, 5-to-7 octaves, level 3)
(All "full choir" means above is that it's meant for the normal distribution of bell ringers, i.e. one person for every two white notes.) To use the vernacular of stock brokers, is my portfolio diversified enough? Are there a couple pieces I could add that would show that I have the range of Kobe? (Please compare/contrast with the range of Shaq.)
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
these are comments, absent.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
