February 2012
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HAMLET →
1st news blurb about the production and I get a mention!
February is Super-Busy-Music-Month
Just had a really successful premiere of my latest work, Hagar: A Dramatic Recitative for countertenor. I was taken by surprise at the response—a long applause with the performers returning for a second bow. I am now in the process of editing the piece for my ASCAP submission and I’ll be sure to post an mp3 of the performance when I get a copy later this coming week. Steven kept...
By Monday
Create List of Cues for Acts 3-5 of Hamlet
Write 3 minutes of music for the Mouse Trap scene
combine sounds for the cues requested by the director
This weekend, I’m hiding in my room.
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Grilled Cheese
That is all. Return to what you were doing.
What a day of music chores
submitted my app to bmi
had a 30+ minute phone interview with bowdoin rep
comp lesson
rehearsal of hagar
the boy is singing hagar tomorrow. tonight’s rehearsal was a bit tough, for both me as a composer and for them as players. my notation is not clear and he’s been running into a shit ton of stress for this recital (it’s gone from AWESOME to FUCK IT ALL in the span of...
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Comprehensives Folder...
De Falla
Griffes
Ives
Kodaly
Laurie Anderson
Leoncavallo
MacDowell
Mahler
Nielsen
Rachmaninoff
Respighi
Ruggles
Scriabin
Sibelius
Stravinsky
Vaughan Williams
Going name by name, compiling all of the public domain scores I can off of this list. This covers about 2 1/2 pages of the list and I had to skip some names because they are not public domain (like Benjamin Britten)....
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I feel like I'm getting fat off of my housemate's...
I want to complain…but it all tastes sooooooo good.
P.S.
Sorry, Tumblr. I have a feeling that this stuff is going to happen for a bit while I settle into this whole “relationship” thing. Please bear with me.
Here goes...
I got more shitty news today…I should preface: Yesterday, I had to have my car towed to a garage…yes, the one I just bought.
Today was going fine, without much incident, until I get a call from the mechanic. He says that the work is going to cost around $700…way more than I can afford. So I’m panicking, as usually happens when something like this occurs. Tonight was a...
January 2012
71 posts
Hamlet →
The first completed collection of sound options for Hamlet. Though the pantomime scene and bow music haven’t been included (they are both up to the director’s discretion and I require duration for the former option), it is a cohesive database. All the sounds are built around samplings of Tibetan bowls, bowed cymbals, harp, and bowed crotales.
Hamlet goes up on February 23rd at 7:30PM,...
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Shortened option for Ophelia’s funeral...
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Cool News
I’ve been asked to present some of my work in a masterclass with guest-composer in residence, Thomas Pasatieri. He is presenting the New England premiere of his opera, Hotel Casablanca this coming week and 3 composers have been tapped to present their work, myself being one of them. I am both pleasantly surprised and in slight disgust with my current repertoire, as I have no idea what of...
I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't... →
Wow.
:D
Problem #1 with dating a colleague
Separating professional time and personal time and not letting the two mingle. When I get mad at the colleague side, I have to keep that away from the boyfriend side. I bring this up, because he and I are collaborating on a piece (he’s premiering my latest vocal work) and we got into an argument when he started fiercely suggesting changes to it. Some good suggestions, some…I’m...
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Trying not to be an angsty stick in the mud
You know those moments of insecurity where you feel like you’re not appreciated or that you’re second fiddle? You know how you can recognize that it’s entirely bullshit and that that little voice is a moment of weakness? I’m working so hard not to succumb to those moments. One day at a time, people. It’s going to be a positive year.
Damn
A bunch more sound options for Hamlet now done. Still a bunch more to do.
Today: 4 versions of love/ophelia/madness
Tomorrow: back to work on Claudius.
Sound Option: Ophelia/madness/love for Hamlet
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cuno:
hxcfairy:
Ode To A Nightingale by John...
Body issues?
Yep. Looked at myself in the mirror the other day and noticed that I’ve put a bit holiday extra on. So it’s time to take it off. Back in gear with a combined cycle of Insanity and P90x. I will shed this fluff.
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Sound option for Ophelia’s Funeral Dirge.
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Bowdoin App
Almost done. 2nd time’s a charm right?
Hopefully, I will be the resident assistant this summer, which would give full tuition for the festival.
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Ugh.
Trying not to be bothered and insecure right now.
Hamlet - The Ghost/Internal Dissonance
Sound...
