A fellow Boston composer just humbled me with a rave response to the
Erasures.
After church, I've spent most of the day working on the revision / Sibelius edition of
The Wind, the Sky, & the Wheeling Stars. It is altogether a
homier piece than the
Erasures, but I am finding that I still like very well. I never did get a document of the first (and thus far, only, natch) performance. That performance was a little rough, but in abject candor, there were some bits which I notated unnecessarily difficult — hence the "new edition" aspect of this task . . . I originally wrote the piece 15-16 years ago, and, well, I have learnt a good deal in the interval. Plus this was the first orchestral score I had to deliver to a conductor, so of course I committed my share of errors. (The conductor wanted distance while he was rehearsing, so I was not in the hall with the band until the dress rehearsal; so circumstances did not permit my "educating through" those errors into perfection.)
Anyway, I am not quite half finished with the present edition; I am easily emending the things which wanted adjustment, and, modest though the piece be, I find it good for what it is.
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