Three new arrangements: at least a moment

Today has to have been the most productive single day I’ve had in ages. This afternoon, I finished work on the redesign of Darien Shulman’s website, darienshulman.com, which has been in the works for a few months. The design process for this site was...

Best at dawn?

The new piano piece is essentially finished at this point. All that remains is to make some minor engraving revisions based on feedback I’ll be getting later this week from Marc Peloquin, who will be premiering it on March 9 — and to settle on a title....

Mistakes and Revision

I remember a time (as surely anyone who has ever created anything can) when every note I wrote was sacrosanct.  <em>That</em> is how I wrote this, and <em>that</em> is how it shall remain.  Fortunately, that period was incredibly short-lived. ...

Engraving: A Hobby-Horse

A man and his Hobby-Horse, tho’ I cannot say that they act and re-act exactly after the same manner in which the soul and body do upon each other: Yet doubtless there is a communication between them of some kind; and my opinion rather is, that there is something...