Back in January, I made the public goal of composing or arranging 24 pieces by the end of this year -- two pieces a month, in other words. Now that we're at the one-third point in the year, I have made the decision to look back at my records and see how well I'm doing at this endeavor. As I write this, I haven't yet checked; my best guess is that I'm pretty close to the eight I should have hit by now, but let's go take a look-see...
Well, not too bad. With the contest piece I'm sending off today, I will have composed/arranged seven pieces thus far this year -- two of those (“Fantasie on 'Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart'” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”) which, surprisingly, have already be accepted for publication. And if we're counting fractional pieces as well, I'm more like 8.4, since my third contest piece of this year is 90 percent done, and a medley of Christmas hymns I'm working on is about halfway completed. So. Yay me.
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.
