Year in review or <insert some snappy pun here>
Quite the busy boy, I am. I like to make lists of stuff I've done. This conflicts with my wife's desire for me to make lists of things to do. Maybe it's a commitment thing, not like a personal commitment, but of a ...it doesn't matter (i just did a whole thing by myself, you see).
I like to make lists fo stuff I've done, particularly at stock taking times like this one. Quite a busy boy I am!
First, the sacred stuff:
One motet - a 4 and 6 part O Sacrum Convivium
A set of Communios for lesser feasts - Epiphany, Transfiguration, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday
One more Southern Harmony song - Resignation which I wrote for my friend, ML who still hasn't done it yet, dammit.
A Unision Mass for Grace Church, Newton, for which, the Sanctus needs reworking.
The last in a set of four pieces, also for Grace - a Stabat Mater for two voice parts and organ.
I started a Magnificat last Sunday and will likely finish it before the new year.
Remember when I said I wasn't going to write any more sacred music?
And now, the not so sacred, in no particular order:
A string quartet, premiered in June
A set of songs for baritone and cello, also premiered in June
A set of four pieces for wind ensemble
A set of pieces (three complete to date, the fourth one started) for solo Trombone and voice (at the same time, by the same player, cuz he's cool like that, or because he has ADD or something)
Two piano preludes (C and Db Major, you know where that's heading...)
A piece for percussion ensemble (in progress)
Two arias and a scene for my mad libretto opera project, premiered in October.
Here's to another productive year (and to other people doing my work), the ICS project, professional developments (more on that later) and to a slew of other shit.
Signing off until the next decade!

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