Creativity

Well? How do you like it?

I spent a good long time this afternoon redesigning Treble Clef, and I must say, I am very pleased with the results. 

I was most pleased with the header. It was very fun to make and I love the way it turned out.

Please vote on the poll on the side to say what you think. I hope you like it as much I do. :)

On other creative topics, I've finished the first verse of Hallelujah for trumpet, piano, cello, and violin (recording to come soon) and have made a significant start in my Trumpet Sonata No. 1 (Prelude). I can tell that it will be great.

I also took some lovely moon pictures last night at a flashlight September 11th memorial. It was stunning, all the lights and the full moon rising above. It is time for light- we've been in darkness for too long.

What have YOU done that's

creative?

am i....crazy?

It's not even the end of summer yet, but yet, for an hour yesterday this is what I sat down and did:

Yeah...maybe I'm crazy for thinking so far ahead, but then again, arranging is a lot of work and takes a lot of time....

Oh well, it only makes me really excited for what's to come in the arranging scope in the coming year :)

Finally, A Final Product

Completion.

Victory is mine.

I finished the main writing of this piece a little while ago but then I had to format it for all the parts. Like the score only has the four basic parts, but there are a LOT more. I've got trumpet 1, trumpet 2, clarinet 1, clarinet 2, flute, oboe, alto saxophone, french horn, and trombone/tuba/other bass instruments.

I am extremely please at how it turned out, and I cannot wait to play it at camp in about two weeks. It also serves a dual purpose for camp because we're supposed to bring something that we've created and I'm just going to bring this instead of slaving over a painting or something. I've already slaved over this.....although it was not really work for me because it was very fun.

Anyway, the main point is that I am very happy with it. Yay me.

Also, today was the last day for half my classes! Woot! Except for the final, no more biology, no more band, no more history and NO MORE GYM. (The last one in particular makes me very excited)

I can't believe freshman year is almost over....here comes SUMMER!

I is for I'm Indecisive

I is for I'm Indecisive

In other words, I can't decide what to post about. So, I will just have to combine a bunch of things into this one post.

For one, today the weather decided that it was finally going to be nice and warm and spring-like. This made Sally very happy. Now some clouds have moved in and it's dropped a couple degrees but it's still a very nice spring day around 57 degrees outside. 

Warm weather means driving around with the windows down and finally getting to wear nice spring outfits without freezing my entire body and becoming a Sally-icicle.

Yeah the photo is bad because I used my computer's webcam but you can get the gist of it.

Shorts: Gap / Tank Top: Gap / Cami: Aeropostale / Sweater-thingy: Old Navy / Necklace: Bass

This day just screamed an outfit like this.

And the second part of this post is quite exciting!

As you know, I'm a musician, (duh) and one of the things I like to do is arrange and compose music. A little while back I talked about my arranging of the Les Misérables favorite, Bring Him Home. And I am pleased to announce that I have finished my arrangement! This piece is arranged in four parts for two high voices, a middle voice and a lower voice and can be reformatted and transposed within these four parts to fit any instrument. It's a very versatile piece of music. I have composed it with parts for two trumpets, a flute and a trombone, but with the four parts I have now I think I'm going to add full concert band instrumentation with the four parts that I have.  I'm going to play you the song now but please keep in mind that this is a horrible recording and it doesn't observe fermatas and dynamics and such or tempo...or style....

It also refuses to jump to the coda and stuff so there will be breaks as I stop and restart it in the correct place. Enjoy!

Bring Him Home (II)

Enjoy :)