The PDF version of the Outgrabe for Horn, Violin, Viola & Violoncello score has finally been uploaded, and I've just got to do something about that naming convention. I was really pushing the boundary with this ensamble. Half the reason my thesis composition was called The Red King was to get around listing out all the instruments in the title. Naturally, I was the only person who cared about the naming convention. Never mentinoing it to anyone. I don't recall ever explaining to anyone why I was using "Outgrabe" as a catch-all name in the first place. Short answer: "why not?" This was also the straw that broke the camel's back piece between me and the faculty. Half-way through it, I switched composition advisors. It was never intended as a comp. workshop piece. I started it over the summer and only presented as much as I had finished on the first day of workshop as a how I spent my summer vacation kind-of thing. I even opinned that it was probably too tonal for workshop and had been started as much because I had always wanted to do a tonal work as anything else. The workshop teacher—for reasons I doubt I will ever understand—said I should continue to workshop it. I never should have let him talk me into it. Never.
Published on June 05, 2011 12:19