This entry comes, yet again, while straining to meet a deadline in my “small business” (very small, meaning just me) as a freelance classical composer. I am working almost non-stop to edit the players’ parts for my new symphony to be recorded Sept. 7 and 8. But I’m confident that with some more elbow grease […]

Hilltop is back in the symphony business! Below, you can hear the long-delayed completion of the last (fourth) movement of my new third symphony. Scroll down or read your way there. This mockup is virtual but sounds pretty realistic and is paired with some images, by request, but for me it seems better just to […]

Wow, the last week was one for the books. Since our ballet was a collaboration featuring spellbinding choreography plus love outpoured for the title character (the real Raffaella and her family), it feels not too terribly immodest for me to say I was honored and privileged to have a part in what was nothing less […]