It's been a good creative week here, and, despite a brief run-in with the stomach flu, a good week overall. Read on to hear the latest...
Music -- I finished up a brand-new handbell arrangement of Silent Night this week, entitled Sleep in Heavenly Peace. It's a nice, peaceful arrangement, and on the whole, I'm pretty happy with it. I then got most of the way through a handbell arrangement of In the Garden. It's still in the rough draft stage, but I'm hopeful that if I can find a good couple of hours to work on it today, I can bring it on through to completion.
Writing -- I've started formatting Fealty and Fire to be printed by CreateSpace. I still don't have all the comments and corrections in, but I can make the changes no matter the size of the book.
I'm also gearing up for National Novel Writing Month, which starts Tuesday. After much soul-searching, I think I'm going to work on the rough draft of one of the later Sadonian Chronicles books. I had vowed never to do this in November, but I just don't have any other ideas that even remotely interest me. I suppose I could just take a flying leap and make something up off the top of my head ... hmm. We'll see what transpires.
Publishing -- I believe Tammy Waldrop at Alfred is pretty happy with the new arrangement of Go Tell It On the Mountain I sent her (the email was short and complimentary, and since it didn't end with "... but we won't be publishing it.", I'm going to assume it's good news). That one, and the arrangement of the Ode to Joy, entitled We Adore Thee!, should be out from Alfred around the middle of next year (unless I've got my production schedules all messed up again, which, let's face it, does happen).
I've also discovered that it seems I'll have five new releases from Beckenhorst Press this time around. I guess my arrangement of Gustav Holst's Thaxted (the slow part of "Jupiter" from The Planets), entitled I Vow to Thee, My Country will be out in the next month, as well. I thought it was a little crazy to have four pieces released at a time back in May, but it looks like I just out-crazied that. I'll be sure to post when audio samples are available, but in the meantime, if you want to buy them sight-unseen, they're up on the Beckenhorst Press site, as well as at J.W. Pepper.
I also received a contract this week from Lorenz for three more of my piano pieces, including two original compositions (not arrangements). That brings up to 14 the total number of piano pieces I've had accepted for their Church Pianist magazine, and, if I read the shorthand right, I should have at least one piece in every issue of the magazine from January 2012 through January 2013.
That's it from here. My creative work will be curtailed a bit at the end of this coming week as I travel to Raleigh, North Carolina for the Capital Area Handbell Festival. Fred Gramman is the conductor, so it promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music-making. I still hope to post some updates throughout the day from the fairgrounds, and the regular Saturday Summary will be back the following week.
Until then, have a fantastic and creative week!
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