The work of June is finally starting to see the light of day. I just finished up today two arrangements -- one of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and another of "Christ is Alive" -- which I've submitted to Bill Griffin at Beckenhorst to see if he wants them. I have another here -- an arrangement of "Rock of Ages" -- which should be finished tomorrow and will be sent off tomorrow, though I'm not sure where yet. I'll probably pair it up with "Be Thou My Vision", which Hope passed on about a week and a half ago, so I'll send them off some place where I haven't already tried placing "Be Thou".
I've also got a few shorter pieces I'm going to send off to the AGEHR Overtones editor to hopefully get put in the "Tips and Tools" section of the Overtones magazine. It's fun writing the shorter pieces -- sort of the difference between writing a character sketch versus a short story. Now, whether they're any good or not, I haven't the foggiest notion, but I figure it can't hurt to write them and send them of anyway.
I've also got a string orchestra arrangement of "We Three Kings" I'm nearly finished with. I've been wanting to branch out a bit beyond handbells for a while now, and this is an attempt at that. There's nothing wrong with writing handbell music -- I love writing for the bells, as I hope you can tell from this blog -- but there's a great big musical world out there, and I'd dearly love to be a part of it. That piece should go out later this week or early next week, and then we'll just keep our fingers crossed at that point.
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