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08 May 2013
Time to Talk...or is that write..
Ah the sweet hurry up and wait of life...I remember that from my air Force days. Hurry up and wait. Took me eons of hours to prepare the musicians I'd gathers from the Cape Cod Symphony to rehears and record my chamber music. I figured, if they were symphony musicians and I know the symphony to be good, th4 music would come out good....right? Uhhhhhhh. Maybe some of it will be good. But I probably made every mistake known to music makers everywhere, except in my head. I think I should have been with ...

08 Dec 2012
Christmas time
ALL the presents are off. My kids say the're too old for presents!! And then they relish them. This year they cost more to mail them than it cost for the things inside. The Northern Plains flute... is a bust. I was so busy copying phrases (licks in jazz talk)I wound up with a bunch of phrases. So was embaressed when the fellow who actually plays that flute turned it down. Gee, maybe I should run all my work past someone before I send it off. Then I have a small, three movement duo ...

27 Nov 2012
It's nearly December
I'm wrapping present now in order to get them in the mail. If one doesn't do it early, your gift will arrive on Valentines Day. Musically, I'm working on a Shakahachi flute and poem piece. Since I wrote one for Northern Plains Indian flute and the Shakahachi fellow freaked, I'm working to get it right. It's very hard to notate the Shakahachi using Finale. Way too subtle and fast. I was told the piece must be slow...yes to accommodate all the really fast things that happen to a ... Comments 2