It's a dark dreary night here in Indianapolis, the perfect time to add a long-overdue blog post.
I heard back from Doug Wagner about Portraits of the Cross and discovered that while it was a good piece, it was about a month too late for him as he'd just accepted two other pieces using the tunes I used. In publishing, as in everything, timing is everything. It reminds me of a joke my wife tells which only comes off when spoken and will fall rather flat on the screen ("Do you know what the most important part of comedy is? Timing." Yeah, really flat on the screen.) But perseverance is everything in getting published, so I've sent it off to Alan Lohr at SoundForth, someone else who had sent me some encouraging words after some of my previous submissions. Now just need to wait to hear back.
Still have four pieces out to Bill Griffin at Beckenhorst and a pair of originals to John Behnke at AGEHR (whom I should be hearing back from by the end of the month).
Oh, and the Processional for Easter Day was a bit of a flop and so has been scratched, at least on the handbell side, though I'll try to salvage the organ part of it.
Right now I'm working on an arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy, which I did the rough draft of back last summer. I'm actually discovering I have quite a number of workable rough drafts which just need some tweaking before they can be sent out, so I'll likely spend much of my time between now and when school lets out just working with those, then tackle some new pieces come June. I'm hopeful this one will be another Beckenhorst piece, continuing my streak of annual Christmas arrangements published by them. Of course, I still have to get it done, which shouldn't take too long.
Well, the rain has let up, so I think it's time to get on to other things. Until next time!
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