A new post has been long overdue. Want to be sure to have something worth posting and not just blab. Several things have developed over the past few weeks.
- Just finished a commission for a wedding this summer. I wrestled for quite some time over an appropriate (tr: un-hoaky) wedding text and finally settled on a newer one entitled Lord, Make Us One. I think it turned out quite well. I am also pleased that I will be able to accompany for it’s performance at the wedding. Scored for piano, harp, cello and duet vocals. I’ll hopefully get a recording of it.
- I had mentioned that I had done some orchestrating. I had the privilege of scoring several existing sacred choral pieces as well as arranging a few pieces myself. Really looking forward to how these will turn out on the recording! One thing that helped inspire my instrumentation for this music was what Rimsky-Korsakov’s prefaces his Principles of Orchestration with: “Write for the group you know will be playing the music and not for an ideal group.” Great advice.
- Speaking of orchestrating, My Jesus, Fair seems to be doing well over at www.churchworksmedia.com. Just received my first paycheck for that orchestration. Keep ‘em coming!
- My friends over at Majesty Music and I are collaborating once again for another Easter program. I have been busy arranging some great hymn texts/tunes and am looking forward to how they will be implemented as a whole.
