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 …
(Click on the play arrow above to hear the song) So, this is a soppy love song. I wrote it for Cathy after she said “yes” and it is about our first meeting and first date. Okay. Enough of the soppy stuff! It’s a bit of a hybrid, as it has elements of funk, Everly …
So I have taken a break over the last 6 months and done very little musically. Over New Year I decided to try to orchestrate and record a song that I wrote some three years ago. It was one of those songs that comes very easily. An idea comes to you, a guitar riff, …
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 …