I've been working on two pieces recently, side by side. One a piano piece, the other for an old pupil of mine, Treena Hope, who plays treble recorder better than anyone I know.
The piano piece had a title and quite a few bars; silentum inter (the silence in between) and, although I might write eight or nine bars in a single session, I fell into the habit of deleting half of them when I next opened the file. Progress, taking two steps forward and one back, was (as I'm sure you can imagine) painfully slow.
Then, at 3 am today, the solution came to me - put them together as one piece. It was truly eureka moment but I needed to remember a few of the details and had to get up out if bed to note them down. I was tempted to write the whole thing then and there but experience has taught me that working through the night is not a good idea.
I hope the next piece of writing on this blog will be called silentum inter and that it will mean that these two pieces have been successfully merged.
This is a short blog, rather like a long Tweet. Yes, I have joined Twitter and already have 18 followers; I'm no Stephen Fry but I do hope that number will increase soon. After all, I've been twittering for almost three days now.
Like my music, not every piece nor every blog has to be seminal. I will keep this short just to keep you all posted...
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