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Floyd Gadd, a tenor based in Brandon, Manitoba, is recording several of my songs for inclusion in an upcoming CD release. He sent me rought takes for three of them yesterday and they sound excellent!

Floyd included a couple of my Christmas music arrangements on a previous CD a few years ago. I’m afraid I lost my copy, but I used to listen to it a lot around the holiday season, and I still think it’s one of my favorite Christmas albums. I’m looking forward to the new release!

My friend Allison Edberg is giving a recital in about an hour, featuring a couple of my own pieces. At her request, I realized the figured bass to a group of Marin Marais’ viola da gamba pieces, which she is performing with Martha (on piano, since ISU’s harpsichord is a piece of crap), and Kurt Fowler on baroque cello. She and I are talking about doing a set of Marais transcriptions for publication. They’re really quite interesting.

She is also performing my song cycle from a few years ago, The Rain Is Full Of Ghosts. She’s performing with Martha on piano and Colleen Davis singing. Martha and Colleen gave the first few performances, with me on viola. It’s fun hearing Allison do it though, because she’s a million times better than me.

Also, Steve Lippia performed with the Carmel Symphony in Indianapolis on Saturday. His program was mostly the same as the one he did in Columbus last month, including three of the arrangements I did for him. I drove up to hear him (thanks to Kurt Fowler for getting me the ticket), and the show was great. Steve sounded good, and the Carmel Symphony is wonderful.

This morning I mostly finished the piece for flute choir that I’ve been working on for a month or so. I’m calling it Cloudscapes, unless I think of something better. It is in two movements, Cirrus and Nacreous, in the usual slow-fast arrangement. There are a few details left to work out, mainly concerning dynamics in the last movement, and parts need to be extracted and formatted, but most of the work is done at this point.

More details to come later.

Now back to the clarinet trio, which I’ve sadly neglected for a few weeks while I tried to finish this.