Here is the soprano/orchestra movement of my choral work CYCLE OF FRIENDS (c. 25) – a journey through five diverse texts dealing with the universal theme of friendship. This early piece (1996) remains the one I'm most proud of. (The rest can be heard on my website.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMR9...

Surely this joke has been made already by someone, but… I don’t get out much.

Ugh – sorry!

Excellent. One of them had a Seussian bushy mustache, if I remember correctly.

Let’s face it. All time zones are silly.

It depends on the context, but sometimes people truly don’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about. Or sometimes they think I do jingles or film music, or write pop songs, etc. All fair enough, I suppose – just not quite right in my case.

I have a similarly hard time explaining what I mean when I say I’m a “composer“ most of the time.

Thanks – I hope you'll consider it!

There's no prohibition against pieces with no recordings, and no harm. It's just that busy folks are way more likely to get interested in things they can listen to for a first impression. You can always add titles and update them later with recordings. More→ www.swirlymusic.org/about-swirly...

CYCLE OF FRIENDS (25’), for soprano solo, chorus and chamber orchestra. I can’t share the whole thing here, but here’s the soprano/orch-only movement. The rest is on my web site.

youtu.be/UMR91tzIKV4?...

I ditched Twitter years ago. It has become insufferable long before X because of the ads and the algorithm. This seems promising. Give it some time, I guess.

I love the way you put that!

It's the beginning of the bottom voice here. I had pointedly asked the students, "When does the bottom voice begin?" And (as expected) they said it begins on beat 2. So I want them to think of the rest – rests in general – as part of the performance.