For the last two weeks my nose may have been kept to the grindstone editing music, but it has also been smelling fragrances from our back garden. I went out and took these photos of our clematis, which decided to bloom early this year. Spectacular! But again, after some days of reaching 80o F outside, […]

It occurs to me that in the past three years, in terms of the time it takes to play it, I have composed three hours-worth of music, mostly for large orchestra, including two long symphonies, a full-length orchestral ballet, and a choral Mass. That all totals over a thousand 11 X 17 pages of score […]