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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Tell a Story
Second post regarding the new VMO commission. This piece is about 9 minutes long. I’ll tell you right away, this is the longest single movement concert piece I have ever written. Up until now I have focused on other aspects of composition and did not feel ready for something this long. Now I was ready [...]
Lead the way
Still composing the VMO orchestral piece. I have some thoughts I want to put down in my blog and I’ll try to do it in short, frequent posts. Here’s the first. I had many ideas for this piece, and being of longer duration, I had more material prepared to fill the formal plan I had [...]