I have so much going on at the moment! What with my day job, my hair salons and trying to write, there is much to do 🙂 I’m currently working on a string quartet, two songs for soprano as well as a couple of pop songs and some recordings. Mustn’t complain. I live a very …
This has been a while in the making. I started it several years ago and had a two year gap where I could not finish it. Suddenly, though, inspiration hit me and I was able to complete it!. It’s sound world is taken from one of Messiaen’s Modes of Limited Transposition, and its influences include Beethoven, Bernstein and Reich. It is structured in three movements: Fanfare and Introduction; Adagio; Finale and …
Very many years ago, a pianist friend of mine was about to sit her FTCL exam and at the last minute asked whether I would page turn for her recital. I of course agreed and one of the three pieces the was playing was The 12th Prelude and Fugue from Dmitri Shostakovich’s Opus 87 set. I …
For such a short piece of music I am astounded at how long this has taken me! I think I finished the fifth one about four months ago. This one though is more complex than the other six. I took my 12 x 12 matrix of sequences derived from the original tone row (the same …