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Compositional atmospheres.

Slow passages should be heart-wrenching or unsettling. Moderate passages should be soothing and/or thought-provoking. Fast passages should be commanding and/or electrifying. The passages to all[…]

Whoa now.

Check THIS out. Professor Masahiro Kawakami, who teaches at the Tokyo College of Music, was a great teacher at Music Fest Perugia 2012 who improved[…]

“Pick a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” – Confucius

Here lie some sheets, on which I was working today, to a draft of the completely damper pedal-less “Toccata in A-flat Major,” begun Nov. 2008,[…]

Tidbits.

I just applied an update to the Grand Waltz score, fixing a minor reading issue which Professor Petukhov pointed out, but which I had forgotten[…]