New Project Started

Tonight, I spent a good amount of time contemplating WHAT my next work will be. With this third project now before me - to compose an orchestral and a chamber work (both of which must be the BEST representation of me) - I decided to devote time to the orchestral first. The piece, after contemplation, will be a large scale symphony. Something of which I've worked on many, many times in the past - and have completed many rudimentary ones. This one, however, has to be different - I will expect nothing but my best work out of it! The opening is already complete and I have introduced the first theme of the work and am now about to expand on that theme. So far the work is a far cry from my earlier symphonies... this one may truly be deserving of the title itself!

Getting Established

Classical music for me is a passion unlike any other. Being a composer, I find the intricacies of it to be quite mesmerizing to analyze. When I listen to music, I don't hear just pretty notes or emotions being conveyed. I hear the notes and their relation to one another. I can see the textures that the composer sought to create and am able to 'lose' myself with in them - especially when the texture was well created with many strata. My own music has taken quite a while to gestate and mature. At 29, even, I don't feel that I'm as mature as I musically can be. My music is personal yet public. Emotive, yet restrained. As I turn 30 this next May, I feel that the time has come for me to make my musical creativity a career. The only question is, how does one do that? The purpose of this blog is to chronicle this path that I have chosen to take - from my first steps to (hopefully) my full establishment as a composer.