Fate so far has been against me: no organist whom I or Karl have contacted in the past months has time or interest.
If you know of anyone who plays the organ fairly competently, and would like to make some extra money by playing and recording my little prelude (circa 3 minutes), please let me know your e-mail address via Personal Message, so that I can forward the pdf.file and a "MIDI" version.
Since we have a few new members who might not have seen this topic about my curious non-composing career, I thought I would again push the message about needing an organist.
Plus, some months ago, in a box of novel and short story manuscripts, there surfaced a few photocopies of some musical works from 50 years ago or so! They survived the Great Purge of 1992, when I destroyed everything...or at least, I thought I had destroyed everything!
Among the works was one of which I at first literally had no memory!
That was an unusual experience for me, because I usually have - in music! (not in everything, as
Mrs. Cato will verify
) - nearly total recall.
After mulling and stewing and simmering, I decided the work - despite my inability to remember hardly anything about it (a memory of sorts finally did arrive, that it was composed during a Christmas vacation, and a very snowy one at that) - had enough merit that I would put it into a computer manuscript via the NoteFlight on-line program.
I have almost finished with the last movement: the work is for 2 violins (which was at first not clear, given that the photocopy had not preserved what the two treble-clef instruments were supposed to be) and a piano, which might make it seem like a trio, but the opus is more like a symphony for the three players.
I have of course revised it as I have entered the notes into the program: the manuscript contained some mistakes, and some impossibilities for the violins. Here and there I expanded some sections, since it seemed too
Webernian and needed elaboration. Transitions here and there were added, and so on.
So for the third time in the past few years, I have returned to (sort of) composing music, "sort of," because in this case I already had a complete manuscript, as opposed to the sketch for the
Exaudi me. Whether or not this will stimulate the itch to compose something
ex nihilo in the 21st century, and not something based upon works from 50 years ago, who knows?
Probably not!
Certainly nobody is knocking on the door to demand a concerto or symphony!
Anyway, stay tuned!
