I’ve posted before about the ongoing Book of Hours project; it’s a planned 24-movement work for piano, one for each hour of the day.  The individual movements are by no means programmatic (it would get pretty dull in the early morning hours); instead, I’ve attached each to something literary (whether a poem, prose, or quote) that goes […]

The sonata for double bass has now passed the five-minute mark, and the rough draft of the exposition is safely down on paper! Although there are several changes I need to make yet, it’s nice to be able to move on to the development.  It’s always difficult to know exactly how “out-of-the-box” to make the […]