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Made it to the end of the opening violin phrase.  Rushed it a bit to close the string of notes I was bent on using.  Going to rework it tomorrow.  Clarify it a bit.  Do I like any of it?  Won’t worry about it too soon – hard to swallow, unless…a few [...]

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Slowly working on this first day off.  Checked the work emails, and drank my coffee, and then hit the piano to start shifting into violin solo mode – shaping the first half of this opening phrase.  Can’t say I got too far.  Came back in the late afternoon after a micro-nap [...]

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One of the cool things about dealing with words and music is the workflow is so much less complicated and portable than the usual trappings of instrumental writing I have for myself.  Within that personal world, I would always be thinking about the end result – the orchestration, dynamics, voicings, different [...]

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Finally fixed into the new place, I have been spending disciplined time visiting cello and orchestra works and playing the piano a bit over the weekend structuring bits and pieces of these notes into some memory of a work.  Memory?  Oh yes, because I forgot how I constructed them and have a need to at [...]

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…I sense a tinge of panic as my desperate transposition to a new place comes to a close, and I look beyond to writing again.  Turning on the piano this evening, I explored a few potential openings for the cello work including some meandering in the post introduction or exposition.  Where this is going is [...]

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I continued to get ideas for the book I want to write.  Now its turning into a reflection of scenes and characters, which indicates to me right now some kind of narrative form.  I can’t help but think this would be an easier thing for me to break off and do that try to write [...]

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Oh yes, there is plenty to thank.  Its a bit redundant to consider doing so, but “comfortable” seems to me a much more rewarding word than “rich” (if that were the case).  Small things are worth enjoying.  A cup of coffee in the morning.  Warmth in the cold.  A bit of light.  A good chair. [...]

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Saturday, I put some hours into this chair and started to use Sibelius to capture some of the notations and sketches of this violin work.  Of course, its not flushed and true, but it outlines that it needs to be expanded in depth here and there,  so, it’s serving a purpose.  And, [...]

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