Sonata in D K 381 W A Mozart
arr Michael Round
Nonet Op. 31 Louis Spohr
- Interval 15 minutes -
Timepiece, for wind quintet Lyle Sanford
Wind Quintet (1964) Ketil Hvoslef
Serenade No 2 in A,
Op 16 Johannes Brahms
Jonathan West shepherded the piece to performance and reports it got a good response both evenings. He also says the five players want to polish it up a bit and perform it again sometime, and that other players expressed interest in getting the score and parts to play themselves, both of which are about the best reviews possible for me.
Icing on the cake was hearing that they performed the piece standing, which is something Jeffrey Agrell and I went back and forth on a while back, agreeing that playing standing increases the chances of connecting with an audience.
In the next month or so it will be two years that I've been keeping this blog. The ways blogging has connected me to the great, wide world keep surprising me. These performances of a piece I wrote 15 years ago would never have happened without the connection to Jonathan via this blog and his. That this is the new normal for youngsters now growing up astounds me.
It looks like there'll be a recording of the performance available on down the line. Maybe when I hear that I'll really believe this has happened.
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