This left me all of two weeks to fulfill the rest of the requirements, which was to hurry up and write a large scale chamber orchestra work. As if two weeks wasn’t pushing it, that time frame included producing a professional score and a mock up recording. A little daunting, but this was too good of an opportunity just let go by. So I wrote and wrote and notated and recorded and re-wrote and on and on until it was time to put the package in the mail and hope for the best.
Well the best came to pass. I’m on the program and will not only get a live performance in my favorite city performed by members of the New Orleans Philharmonic, but will also get a professional recording of the performance and hopefully lots of new opportunities to write more concert music as a result.
As a guy who now writes entirely for sampled musicians, I can’t express how excited I am to hear my music performed by live musicians. I’ll be posting up the recording as soon as its available.
For details about the competition and performance, you can go directly to this site:
http://louisianacomposersforum.org/
, is that they are interested in composers more so than individual pieces. I’m concentrating on aligning myself with companies that take on the attitude. It feels more like I’m on a team.
