This post is gonna be a little short, just wanted to say a couple things real quick:

The performance of Haiku was last night, and it went pretty well. The musicians were Sophia Musleh on flute, Julian Rieder on percussion, and Daniel McCarthy on viola.

I'm working on a piece for full orchestra. So far I have about 2 minutes written in short score, which I'll orchestrate next week. I'm gonna work today and tomorrow to see if I can get a little more than 2 minutes... pretty sure I won't be reaching the goal of 8, though, by Monday.

I'm also working on other movements to accompany Haiku. I'll eventually have a handful of chamber pieces based on poetry forms. I'm probably going to include sonnet, free verse, and limerick. Nothing's set in stone yet, though- just ideas.

Also, big news: Magnum Opus is getting a second performance! It will be at the DC Fringe festival this summer. It's going to be produced by Opera Alterna. I'm so excited about this! Once I know the exact venue and dates I'll put them on here.

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Haiku 03/06/2009
 

I'm nearly finished with my new chamber piece for flute, viola, and percussion: Haiku. The whole piece will be about 5 minutes long. It's organized in a large ABA' form, where the two A sections each take up about 5/17ths of the time of the piece and the B section takes up 7/17ths - or, the rest of the time. Therefore, the piece has 5 - 7 - 5 proportions, like a haiku. Each of the larger sections has a small 5 - 7 - 5 proportion, though the two "5" sections are not as thematically similar as in the large ABA'.

In this piece I'm trying to evoke Japanese sounds without going too far and sounding like a parody. I think I've succeeded so far... I suppose the real test will be hearing it played by actual instruments.

I've also been playing around with mirror images in the piece. There are a lot of places where it looks like certain sections of the score are mirror images of other sections, sometimes in canon with each other. It doesn't quite sound like just a mirror image all of the time, but it's somewhat interesting visually. I think so, at least.

I'll probably finish this up today. Then I have to do some brainstorming with a potential (or, likely) future collaborator!

Also, does anybody want to give me a job for next year? I'd appreciate it. :)

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