It's been too long!

Dear Blog,

I do not believe in the excuse "I'm too busy". Being "too busy" to write down what is happening in your life defies the purpose of keeping a diary, blog, journal or record of any kind. If you weren't "too busy" you'd have nothing substantial to write about. That said, it has been a hectic month preparing for this Saturday's premiere of "Krljavestica!" which I predict is going to be fantastic!

We had our first combined rehearsal this past Friday which was moderately scary, but improved across the two hours we pounded notes and rhythms so I am optimistic in the remaining three rehearsals things will shape up. Sadly, we were missing one percussionist (Eddie was off auditioning for Louisiana and Santa Barbara, good luck, Eddie!) which makes a huge difference considering when you score a work for 2 percussionists and 2 pianists, one missing is a quarter of the entire orchestra. It's like trying to perform Mahler 5 with no French Horns.

Anyway, we got through it and my choir is doing really well! For anyone interested, here is a link to a partial performance we did two weeks ago in the music school's convocation. The password is "krlj". The first half is a talk I gave about the subject matter and form, and at about 32'00" is a brief performance of excerpts from the work, sans choir.

This Saturday's performance will be webcast live here at 5:00pm. I hope you can tune in if you can't make it to the performance.

As for my commercial endeavors. Next Thursday sees us wrapping up all the music for Raw Thrills' "Nicktoons Knightro" which has been a really fun project to put together. Here's hoping my new commercial reel (complete with in game movies of Spongebob Squarepants racing through Bikini Bottom) pulls in some orchestration gigs from my friends in Hollywood. Get it? Reel? Pulls in? Fishing? Okay, okay, I've said enough, I'm too busy for this.

*CK