Quartets/Quintets Anyone?

It's been quite a while since I've played quartets/quintets. My dad invited me to play with his Tuesday night standing quartet gig, doing Mozart and Brahms quintets. Lovely stuff. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have to hold my own.

The next week my dad couldn't play, so I subbed for him. We played Beethoven and Borodin. Some of my favorite quartet music. Afterwards we sat around the table, having wine and strawberries. Good times!

Celtx Storyboard Continued

I took snapshots of all my hand drawn storyboards for the Roadkill video and put them into Celtx with the original notes. It's been good practice getting my hands wet and it exposed several areas where the concept wasn't completely thought through. A lot of missing details, especially around the types of shots I want to use to convey the story line.

I really want to find a location that will take the hand drawn concept into the real world. I've been keeping any eye out for such a place; just haven't found it yet.

My Irish Jig Takes Wing

So I've actually been quite busy the last month, but didn't put much energy into the blog. For starters, I sketched out my classical composition (working title My Irish Jig). Got the basic structure in Finale and even have a first draft of the opening, which turned out much better than I could have hoped. Still plenty of arranging to do as well as flesh out the minor middle section (the original recording had a very short, simple repeating line).