When I was in college I arranged Grieg's "Morning" - probably more honest to say I mis-arranged the thing as background music for a stage performance created by my then-roommate, Mike Vogas. You work on all those notes and think about how you expect it to sound and then the moment comes when actual players execute what you put on their pages. The fact I still remember it is testimony to the impact it had on me.
After all these years it's still a thrill. Cantate's concert this past weekend concluded with an encore I had spent the last several weeks arranging (not Grieg). You can ask your synthesizer to "shimmer" in the strings and for a lovely high D to float in above by the flute but you really need people and instruments to make that happen. And so they did and so my heart was full up with joy. Thanks to Benjamin Rivera, the orchestra and the singers of Cantate for "making my day."
Starting tomorrow, posts about storytelling.
After all these years it's still a thrill. Cantate's concert this past weekend concluded with an encore I had spent the last several weeks arranging (not Grieg). You can ask your synthesizer to "shimmer" in the strings and for a lovely high D to float in above by the flute but you really need people and instruments to make that happen. And so they did and so my heart was full up with joy. Thanks to Benjamin Rivera, the orchestra and the singers of Cantate for "making my day."
Starting tomorrow, posts about storytelling.
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