Ahhh, New Music

I had a piece premiered this last Friday afternoon at the Missouri Music Educators Association meeting. (Osage Beach is so lovely this time of year. Except not.) Anyway, I wrote a brief Magnificat a few months back and the choir that gave its premiere did a really great job with it; especially considering it's a difficult piece (so I'm told). It's only about two-and-a-half minutes but it has a great deal of rhythmic complexity which was fun to work out. Many folks were very complimentary of the piece and much to my surprise several even expressed interest in performing it. So that's nice. Hopefully soon I'll figure out a way to embed the piece here on the old blog. I guess I need to get me one of those website thingies.

Interestingly, no one asked why I only set the first two lines of the Magnificat text.