Originally Posted by goodridge_winners

you know what i hate about this composition...the fact that it has made me really sick in the stomach. That is by no means to say that it is dreadful, because I would be lying if i were to say such a thing. I am still in shock. Give me a moment.

This piece has by far got to be one of the greatest compositions I have ever heard on this forum...in fact, the most greatest composition that has been recently composed (like within the last 3 years of all composers in the world) that I have heard. I am seriously sick in the stomach though, because this piece has such maestoso and such bravura...i dont even know what that means. Im also sick in the stomach, because now i feel like a failure myself as a composer...well that is a bit extreme because Im not, but I feel as if now I have been whacked on the head with a large bat; your fantasy being the bat. The after-math of this whack is a statement: "Welcome to the industry that you Nicholas Goodridge want to be a part of (composition). It is hard, it is competitive and you are going to have to pull your head in to make it."

Your piece has created a fresh wave of fear over me. I now know what I have to achieve as a composer. Thank you for posting, you have made a piece that is described beyond words I can use, but I don't like the affect that it has had on me. Or, either I do, and I am just in incredible shock.


I would consider the cadenza to be more like a cadenza of rachmaninoff's third btw.

I look foward to more of your work, but I will be better prepared next time.