Introduction: A Concerto for Orchestra and a Wedding March!

As the summer starts, I have high ambitions to drastically improve my productivity. I'm hoping that doing a short daily blog will be good. I guess the first thing I'll focus on is an orchestra piece. Right now I am at a more preliminary, conceptual stage of writing. My initial thought was to do a concerto for orchestra type of approach (being inspired by Bartok and Higdon's works of that name). This will be my first work for orchestra so that might be a bit ambitious. It will only be one movement. Currently, I've got an opening idea which might take me somewhere. 

On another brief note, In a few days I am going to my sister's wedding in North Carolina. I have composed her wedding march for violin and piano. Hopefully that will go well. I really hope it will be able to enhance her special day just a little bit.

A part of me is hesitant about sharing about the process of composing but hopefully this can be a platform for me to practice figuring out ways to share about my music in an engaging way because I find music can sometimes be a hard and abstract thing to discuss. People would rather just listen to it. I guess my belief is that music can be even more rewarding if go in knowing what to listen for and being active in your listening. All that to say, I like talking about music and the creative process and that's what that will be.

Until next time….