Got a boilerplate e-mail from AGEHR's music editor today which said, in regards to "Comrades, Haste!," thanks but no thanks. This is a bit disappointing, as (a) AGEHR is the leading publisher of level-5-and-up handbell music, and (b) AGEHR is the leading publisher of contest-winning handbell pieces. I'm not completely surprised -- the title alone makes it a hard sell in the relatively staid (and religious) world of handbells -- but there aren't a lot of other good options out there, I'm sad to say. (The best remaining option -- and one half-owned by a guy I've met before, which helps -- I am sending "CHFtSP" to later today.)
Also, this statement in the official rules makes me pretty sure I'm not a TCM semi-finalist: "Semi-Finalists must return the Score Submission Materials in the pre-paid overnight mail envelope provided to them by TCM. Each such envelope must be postmarked no later than April 30, 2005." You had better hurry up with that pre-paid envelope, Ted Turner.
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.
