Sleep, Sleep ...

After taking a few days off this past weekend from composing, I got back into it Sunday night by revamping an arrangement of the Italian carol "Dormi, Dormi, O Bel Bambin" (which translates as something like "Sleep, Sleep, O Lovely Child," hence the title of this post) and should be sending that off later tonight, along with my arrangement of "Shenandoah" (which Alfred didn't want -- evidently folk tunes don't do well for them.  Who knew?).

(For those diligent readers out there, you may notice that I said nothing about "Fum, Fum, Fum," which I vowed up and down in my last post that I was going to rework.  Well, that one scares me, to be perfectly honest.  Every time I try to tweak it, it does strange things to my head, so, yet again, I'm going to abandon it, at least for the time being.)

In the choral front, I just finished up today on a rough draft of an arrangement of "In the Bleak Midwinter" (which, for some reason, my fingers always want to type as "In the Break Midwinter" -- no clue what that means).  I hope to get that one finished, and perhaps one other, sometime this week and get them circulating out in the ether.

In fun news, recordings of my three newest pieces at Beckenhorst are up on their site.  You can click here to not only listen to the three new ones ("The Holly and the Ivy," "God Rest Ye Merry," and "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (which I actually wrote like four years ago but is just now getting published -- the joys of the publishing world)) but all of my other pieces offered by Beckenhorst (and if you think I'm going to list them all here, well, I'm not). 

(And yes, grammar folks, I did split an infinitive in that last paragraph.  I apologize greatly -- it's something I try to not often do.)

I hope to hear in the next couple of weeks about some of my choral pieces out making the rounds -- it's getting to be that time frame that responses should start flowing (or at least trickling) in.  I'll be sure to let you know how it turns out.

In the meantime, and until next time, here's hoping all of you are engaged in something fun, exciting, and creative.