Trashing Yesterday’s Work
Trashing yesterday’s work is part of the gig.
Arranging
What Was Hard/What Is Hard
Being creative is always hard. But what makes it hard can change over time.
Never Gets Old
At what point in the career of a composer does it get old to hear your music performed?
Public Domain Day 2024
You keep your New Year’s celebration. For me, today is all about celebrating Public Domain Day!
More Unison
Ask yourself what the melody really needs.
Quantum Sufficit
Don’t stop till you get enough, but also…stop.
Big & Little
Often it’s the diction that matters as much as the content.
Always Simpler/Essential Complexity
The longer I write, the simpler I try to be.
Correcting What You Hear
The process of transferring what you hear to paper is not always reliable.
3 Modest Notation Proposals
I propose three modest notation proposals for the modern age.