yes, the point is to get the damn thing out of my mind and inner ear and onto disc. what an amazing feeling!

the spots that sound the fakest (not a word, but you follow me…), are indeed the chords that are a brass quintet. it sounds very “organ”-like. this bothers me, but there’s nothing i can do. we messed with the velocity in there to take out any waves that an organ couldn’t make, so it’s authentic in that regard, but it still sounds more like an organ than a brass quintet. i know in my heart, it’s all brass instruments. you can hear it in there, but it does blanket like an organ.

overall, i’m really happy with how it came out and the engineer is too. he’s a genius and i’m honored to work with him. he’s recording my eight new pieces next month. all drums/mallets/percussion. there’s tributes to my grandpa in there, as well as “shadow games” for todd drew…

You can call me “Cosi fan two-Ts” if you want.

thanks for the heads up. i’ll stick around here for a minute, see if the sackbutt from rhode island is still around! : )

I know some composers, and they are always incredibly excited when they can get an orchestra to perform their work. (Even the really successful ones are excited.)

Hm.
Okay, I know two composers. (‘Some’ is technically accurate but rather misleading.)

speaking of sackbuts… just a few comments ago, impressed with your musical knowledge, i was thinking you’d be a trombone player. i can’t remember if that’s what you played growing up, or it just popped in my head. either way, that’s really ironic!

i dated a trombone player in college. frueling posaunens, was the festival. i even had a t-shirt. man, she was amazing… : (

i composed it on piano. heard a symphony in my head. i recorded it on a digital piano. then i hired a MIDI engineer for the library of symphonic sounds. i assigned every note i played to an orchestral instrument and…voila – a symphony!

or…a – symphony. but, what’s a poor boy ta do? i can’t hire a ‘real’ orchestra. most of it sounds very authentic. in a few spots, it sounds like a fake symphony, ‘coz it’s, well…a fake symphony.

but i’m very very proud of it. moreso than any of the drumset, mallet or percussion playing on the album. ‘coz it’s… not percussion. there’s a little percussion in the piece, but very little. it’s more about the composition, performance (piano) and orchestration.

in the libretto, there’ll be a 3-stanza poem i wrote to go with it…

nocturne = separate post. on its way…

[313] no, penderecki is polish. i think he’s still alive, yeah. born in 1933. he’s taught here in america. krzysztof penderecki = pronounced Christ-Off Pender-etski. as weird as he is! crazy ass, unique avant-garde. not for the weak-stomached! his main piece is “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”. it’s out as fuk.

yeah, lotsa folks have heard it. the official cd should be out this fall. got my copyrights, waiting on the publishing to come through...

i actually played it to diane the other night. she mentioned film scoring, which lotsa folks have...

i hope to have a choreographer write a dance part to it. if so, i'll have it filmed and put it up on the eventual website. i can think of nothing cooler for a composer. i hope that happens...

yes, i’m the same. baroque/bach first. and very sarcastic (and silly).

i’m also a penderecki fan. so, yeah, eclectic!

Has anyone ever heard it?