Done!

OK, sorry for the slight hiatus there. We are back in contact! For the past month and a half, my co-conspirators and I have been composing new works for the Tweetheart concert. For my part, I've written a 10-minute work called "Coming Home", as well as multiple arrangements of pieces by composers as diverse as Monteverdi and Jonathan Coulton. Wynne Bennett has written "Swimming for Johnny" and arranged Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" (that's right, Sinead O'Connor made it popular). Paul Fowler wrote "On Compassion" and arranged Etta James' "At Last", and Grayson Sanders wrote "Shards" and arranged Bjork's "Cover Me".

Some trivia:

All of our pieces use laptop, sometimes to sample and process live what the orchestra is playing, sometimes to insert pre-recorded/manipulated material.

Each of us took about a quarter of the concert (using the pre-existing works on the program as a skeleton) and composed material to "sculpt the flow" of the experience.

This was pretty insane - so much material to complete in a VERY limited timeframe (we started composing in mid-March). However, the end result is astonishing, if we do say so ourselves, in that...it really works. We set out to traverse an entire lifetime musically, viewed through the lens of love, in its many and varied forms. The result is absolutely, and organically, that. A big thank you to Wynne, Paul F, and Grayson - very excited to hear the results somewhere other than in my mind!