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Old Nov 14 2007, 4:14 PM
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I can't listen to it at the moment, but judging from the score I can tell the piece has depth and potential.

My chief complaint is the lack of breathing room in the texture. At most, individual instruments get about 8 bars to themselves and then it's back to a tutti passage. I would like to see you change some passages to be more soloistic and eschew the tutti - such as a longer passage for piano solo, or one of the strings plus piano as accompaniment.

The score is okay, but you'll definitely need a pianist to go over the piano part and clean it up.

Please, please, please, fix the score... there is so little space between the staves that it feels positively claustrophobic, with dynamics and expressions squished in between staves and narrowly avoiding notes. Also, there are portions of the score (I believe second movement) where an individual bar takes up an entire system. That's simply unacceptable. Whether you resize the pages or resize the music itself, please do something to make the score more readable and beautiful. I realize that Sibelius for some unfathomable reason defaults to a Grade 1 Piano Big Note Five Finger style font size, but I know that that can (and should be) changed somehow in the program.

Bravo! I can't wait to listen to this tonight!
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