Beautiful score. I was expecting a longer piece
- nothing is missing, of course. Got an orchestra to play it? It doesn't look like particularly thorny music to play - for a professional orchestra, I mean. I'm sure the players - as well as the listeners - will enjoy playing your music very much.
Question: do you write down an orchestral score starting from a piano version, to condensed, to full score? I understand that some parts may "come out" fully orchestrated in your head, or for some others you may need to work out harmonies or counterpoint issues and may need to sketch down things in a shorter form... but do you actually follow anything like the above steps? I suspect it is a combination of things. And last minute changes can occur all the time once you have the full score and all the notes in front of you. Just wondering, since I've been cooking something "large" (and yes, NOT Baroque
) in my head for several years, and was getting ready to get to work on it.
Anyhow, wonderful achievement. It makes me proud of having a Canadian sister-in-law (she sings in the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir)