This is the first offering of my new music blog. Actually, this is my first blog entry ever! My intention is to post pieces of music here with a bit of commentary when I have something to say about them.
I do not really think of myself as "a composer". During the past year, though, I moved house and I found that one of the heaviest boxes turned out to be a large one full of the music I have written. The scores are not doing anyone any good sitting in a box so my project for this year is to unpack, typeset my old hand-written scores, and then release them into the world.
This will be a process of discovery, for me as well as for anyone reading this blog. The large box was not one that I had to pack anew for moving. It had been sitting up in the attic of my old house, open but seldom used except to accept an occasional new folder.
The music was composed over a period of nearly thirty years and for widely varying reasons. Some of the pieces were assignments back in my student days. Some were “work” projects, written to fulfil a specific purpose. Some came into existence for no reason at all except that they showed up and asked to be written down. A few pieces have appeared in print, most of them anonymously. A few have been performed publicly but most have not.
For now I have set the big cardboard box on the floor in my new studio, in a prominent place where I cannot ignore it. Time to start unpacking!