A newsletter arrived in my inbox a few days ago from a competition I’d entered. I thought it was nothing. But I was wrong.
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Have You Heard?: Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars
My first performed orchestra piece was inspired in part by Walt Whitman poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The piece captures some of the wonder of staring into the star-filled sky on a dark summer night.
Continue reading‘Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars’ Named Finalist in National Competition
I just got word that “Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars” was distinguished as a finalist in the 2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Though it’s not an official award, being a finalist is no mean feat considering there were nearly 750 entries this year, so all in all, I’m pleased with the result. In […]
Continue readingDiscovery: My Title Had *Two* Beginnings
How I came up with a title for “Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars.”
Continue readingConcert Coming Up!
The BYU Philharmonic will be performing my piece “Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars” in a bit less than two weeks, on April 10 at 8:00 p.m. The concert is part of a celebration KBYU is having for its 50th Anniversary. For more information about the concert, visit here.
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