It never rains but it pours. How often does this composer get a premiere? Not often. So how did it come about that I had three world premieres in five days on opposite sides of the world?
• Wednesday 9th Sydney Lightfall - World premiere
• Thursday 10th Sydney Lightfall - Second performance
• Friday 11th Sydney Lightfall [...]
It was the 29th of March 2009 and I was driving back down the F3 yet again. For the first time in months I was excited; there was purpose to my travel, I knew not only where I was going but why.
The previous night, as I was heading to bed, I had thought of an [...]
The central reason for writing this blog at hornconcerto.net is to give an idea of the life of a composer during the composition of a major work. Now if the gestation of Lightfall had gone smoothly, as it so often does, then perhaps there would have been very little to write about; certainly we could [...]
When I returned to the composition of Lightfall in mid-December 2008 I had a clear few months ahead of me. Apart from a couple of predicted minor interruptions there would be nothing to distract my focus. I was behind on the delivery date but I just needed to hide from the world for a while [...]
Well, now this blog has caught up with itself.
In mid-December Mao’s Last Dancer was finished and I was free to concentrate wholly on Lightfall. I gathered together all the ideas and materials created to date and was faced with the reality that I was completely at sea.
Normally I have an idea, then write the piece, [...]
