Had a couple of things happen on the handbell front today. I checked at Jeffers Handbell Supply this morning to look at their Hot 40 list for the week -- their top 40 selling handbell pieces for the past 90 days -- and was pleasantly surprised to see that O Sacred Head, Now Wounded was on there. The last time I had a piece on the Hot 40 list was back from August 2007 to January 2008 with Il Est Né. Needless to say, it's exciting to have a second piece on there, especially since I only have 5 pieces currently in print.
I also got an email from Doug Wagner at Lorenz tonight with a pdf of the proof for Kum Ba Yah. I'll look at that over the next couple of days and send changes back to him, because there are always changes. No matter how many proofs of pieces I see, it's always still exciting. I've been using Finale to print out all my scores for years, and have printed out my proof copies here at home on a laser printer for the past year and a half or so, but the proof copies from the publishers still always look so nice and neat and pretty. It's always thrilling to get my hands on them, even though I know it means another couple hours worth of painstaking work checking all the notes, rhythms, articulations, and everything else.
On a less happy note, I did hear back from John Behnke at AGEHR about the two originals I sent him back in February, and they've decided to pass on them. I've sent them on to Jeff Curran at Jeffers and hope to hear back from them in a few months. More waiting. Lovely.
I also spent a bit of time today working on an arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy and hope to have it done some time this week. It's Spring Break, so there should be plenty of time for me to get it finished up, and hopefully one other piece before things start back up next week. I'm still eagerly awaiting summer vacation so I'll have several weeks in a row to get some composing done. Until then, I'll just keep plugging along. Happy April Eve, all.
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