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Ummm.... *.*
you constantly develop it, (1st movement). aND I wonder where it's going. It's this air of contented ness that I ear in traditrional marches or like romantic music played at towm meetings etc, like in movies. As if, eummm, WE'RE all very happy and proud to be at Caltech, That's why I said it sounds uninspired. But it depends on how you develop of course and what you want.. Some times I think the best works have just one theme, like your symphony second movement. In this concerto you have a bit more, and so it doesn't work the same way. OR perhaps I don't understand. 
So I think your first movement concerto depends on how creative you're with the development. It gets nmore interesting as you progress, so I'm curious. *.*
It's strange that this's an aytobiographical concerto. Because...an aytobiograpohical concerto has to have emotionm, I think...It becomes really nice you know when you do that..like yoursmphony... 
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It's interesting that you find the first movement "happy" and "proud"... I see that the emotional depth is not coming across in MIDI. The emotion I most closely associate with the first movement is actually sadness... nostalgia tinged with melancholy, really, though it is perhaps hiding behind a facade of false contentment. To me, that is quite evident without even having to listen beyond what I've already posted - if you listen carefully.
This is probably the most emotionally complex bit of music I've ever started on. I started writing the movement during a period of depression in early November, which almost caused me to drop out of medical school entirely. The events that caused this depression all happened on the Caltech campus last year, and I would rather not revisit them. While I enjoyed most of my time at Caltech, and am proud to have studied there, I now also associate the place with loss and betrayal, and this concerto is in some ways an attempt to come to terms with my mixed feelings about my undergraduate years.
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