Looking Forward
September rolls in and it gets so busy I feel like I could just pick my feet up off the ground and events would just carry me along.
Actually, I’ve been feeling a little overcome by a few events since my last post- the passing of a few friends, my kids growing up and away too fast, so much music, so little time- like I’m riding a very fast river of time. Once again, it’s like I could just pick my feet up off the ground and the current would just push me along.
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Okay, enough musing.
The Follies are preparing for a swing through Ohio, debuting this year’s Christmas show. The Follies Christmas show will be at Hamilton Place December 5-7 for four performances. You can get info at www.geritolfollies.ca If you want tickets, get them soon because this is proving to be the Follies’ most popular show. I spend a good bit of time prepping for these shows prior to rehearsals so that means that in the heat of this past July I was sitting on the patio sunning, and scripting and arranging music for a Christmas show. Strange, that.
Classes are going well at Mohawk Music. Particularly interesting is my ensemble which is working on a piece we call Kolo Blues 1 & 8 . It uses a Serbian melody www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolo_(dance) over a 12 bar blues routine by jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff. http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Jack%20McDuff.html
This is definitely a Frankenstein-like piece, but the beauty of it is it plays well to the various strengths of the members of this ensemble and they sound great playing it.
What’s coming up? A crazy assortment of gigs from Hamilton Place to a hotel in Brantford, from a well-paying scoring gig to a pro bono ad campaign. I enjoy it all.
What am I most looking forward to? The Christmas season, when I can liberally and irritatingly quote from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at every opportunity that presents itself and my family and friends can’t object for fear of looking Scroogey.
So, let the games begin-
To sum up, I love what I do and am very grateful to “have had the lightest licence of a child, yet been man enough to know its value.”
-Charles Dickens
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