A New Year and a New Panic
Posted by Justin Capps on January 18, 2011
Well…the semester starts tomorrow. It should be a good one. If all goes well, I will be taking Atonal Theory (interesting to me, comfortable with it), 18th-Century Music History (“interesting to me”, Huxtable with it), and lessons with Daniel Catan. There wasn’t much of a winter break, between the need to continue working in gainful employment and the delightfully extended family visit. As a consequence, I did not have the opportunity to write as much music as I would have hoped, or any for that matter. But I did a lot of thinking about music, and it has been my experience that this can be almost as invaluable as actually putting notes on a page.
We’ll see what comes of it. The only things that are hard and fast on my plate now are a percussion trio with electronics (~40% done) and revising a piano quintet that’s currently unusable, but which holds a lot of promise. Hopefully, once the semester starts and my time is again regimented I will be able to knock these out swiftly so that I can move on to other projects that might be more professionally beneficial. As it stands, nobody gives a damn about my music, even the parts of it that are good. Somehow that needs to change. I don’t know if that means I have to become hyper-aggressive or just do a bit more begging. Whatever the case, let’s hope I find the right track because I’m working with a limited clock here.
