Here's some wonderful music I collaborated on with the amazing Chris Weingarten awhile back, finally "finished". I'm proud of my violin-playing, which is entirely due to how well the music Chris created engaged me.
The Celebration of the Deep rides again! As a 4 horns & piano arrangement!
Today I went through the score and parts for the 4 horns and piano arrangement of The Celebration of the Deep — I’ve been working on this since late December 2020/early January 2021, ever since Tanja Nissonen of Turku Finland got in touch to ask if there was such a piano arrangement. Her request and willingness to have her horn quartet play the piece (they all liked it when they listened to the sound file I sent of the orchestra version) really inspired me to get cracking, and I was able to send her a more-or-less finished version by the middle of January 2021. I had been thinking about and planning out such an arrangement in my head, but had not worked on more than a concept for it, and before I heard from Tanja I had been drafting a one horn and piano arrangement, seeing if that was possible. This is as part of my musical legacy project — how to help my compositions have the support to get launched into the world so that players and listeners can find them. Bill Cowdery has helped a
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