QcCowboy

AA, if you write "you might just want to know what doesn't work", then you are implying that you know it does not work. Period. Not that it does not work for you. Really, I'm not defensive. I'm trying to help you phrase your comments in a more "judgment-neutral" manner.

I've been writing for a long time. And getting paid to do so for quite a while as well. If you don't understand my piece, then I'm sorry. It also really isn't your place to make suggestions to help me be "understood" by hypothetical others.

Like I said, sorry you don't get the piece and that it doesn't speak to you. I'm not going to change anything because of that. It enthralled the conductor of one of the west-coast symphony orchestras enough to ahve him commission a major work from me. It enthalled the board of directors of that symphony enough to have them repeatedly contact me to tell me that I could have basically "anything I wanted". SO I guess tehre ARE people who are passionate about my music. I'm sorry I can't count you among those.

And again, I'm not "defensive". Why should I be? Are you a college/university professor in disguise on this forum? Does your opinion carry any more weight than anyone else's for any reason? Does it carry more weight than mine?

If you believe you have fond some technical flaw in the 3 movements I've posted, you are quite welcome to expose your opnion regarding those flaws. I'm happy to examine any flaws people find with my music. In a way it helps me understand peoples' perceptions better. however, the "I don't get it" or "it doesn't speak to me" angle is not something I can work with. It just is. There will always be members of the audience who do not get a work presented on a concert programme, whether that be a Mozart piece or a Strawinski. Not all music speaks equally to everyone.

So, like I said, thank-you for your comments, and I'm sorry it didn't speak to you.

P.S. the "fanfare" you keep refering to is only the opening half dozen measures of an otherwise non-fanfare-ish 6-minute long symphony movement. I'm preplexed that that single aspect of the work is all that seems to have caught your attention. Not the "noble" theme that actually opens the symphony (right after the fanfare), nor the dreamy adagio 2nd theme.... in a way, that disappoints me more.