Somewhat surprisingly, I am now almost completely done with "Hundredfold Alleluia" for the Yale contest thing, with, yes, the Soprano part singing exactly 100 Alleluias. (The remaining three voices each sing fewer, I'm pretty sure.) I originally meant for this to be a relatively accessible piece, but a combination of lack of time (difficult and weird is faster for me to write well than easy and straightforward) and the fact that they have a Charles Ives song in their repertoire this season led me to go kind of wack. The first half of the piece is in 5/4 with 3- and 6-measure phrases (rather than 4- and 8-, which are normal), and the second half of the piece is somewhere between Philip Glass and the Taizé Community -- i.e. every 3-measure phrase changes only slightly from the one that precedes it.
I am not sure I am ready to have you listen to it, because I have not yet decided whether it is kinda good or really, really bad. But I will be sending it in tomorrow, regardless.
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.
