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Oh yes, Henry, he agrees, and it is not personal at all. I am 56, he is 22, after all. I copy his letters to my siblings and even if there were anything REALLY personal, and there is not except for friendship, I would just edit it out; what, like his excursions to Kyiv's red light district, naughty movies?🤣 This piece I pulled out of my arse yesterday is so intermingled with this unlikely friendship, and that is all it is, despite some interesting ways of addressing me, that I really have to give some background. Sure, if it breaks forum rules, delete the letters. Could not bother me, and I just won't post any more Kyrylo letters!

Is it appropriate you post your friend's personal letter to a public forum? Does your friend agree? There are lots of personal matter here. Henry

I will await your 10th theme muahahaha!

German Variationen I last wrote; German theme, German poem, German title, sure! This is my first title in Ukrainian! I suppose I will pick up a few words if Kyrylo can actually manage to knock on my door this December, and he was planning a trip to the states before he met me online. My brother is married to a Bulgarian, 20 years, and I know more Russian words than Bulgarian or Ukrainian! Robert Fox <godspetrat69@gmail.com> 1:41 AM (4 minutes ago) to Susan Well, despite the friend's dead grandmother and bank overdrafts that are not my fault but that of my online music publisher, things are fine with me: three days ago, Jonas, my pot dealer, actually bought a 40 for each of us, and we hung out and talked. I had given him $20 for a bud, and he gave me about $60 worth of really great homegrown, almost skunky, not super high THC but stony, burned forever, but it was what we used to call "sleepweed," so for three days I smoked it out of a tobacco pipe and took little naps! He said he would have a beer and hang out again. This is the mark of a great composer; either drink or be a pothead.🤣

Yes, I am on Discord, quite actively as I game regularly with a group of friends. I think it would be beneficial to push for more activity on the Discord side, and possibly some alterations to the discord server itself, as it's quite plain, and not extremely active compared to this forum, as far as I can tell. I have my own discord server for myself and friends to have community for many different topics, and I feel that it may help if I could provide some suggestions regarding edits to the server that would assist in navigation, accessibility and overall more engagement if the server administrators are interested in that

I'd be happy to chat in that part of the discord. As you already know, I am a member of the server, and am more active on Discord than I am here. I assume that corner of the server is reserved for Invite only, as I don't see it on the chat list.

I've added another theme to the bunch for a total of 9 themes I'm working with.

Hello all! I'm back with another piece that I've been working on over the past bit. This one I aimed for less spooky, eerie and more sci-fi. With some big, grand visuals and the voids of space represented in the sections of this piece. This has been a fun one to work on, and am looking forward to your feedback! I didn't really push forward any new instruments or ideas on this one, more just focused on what I have been familiarizing myself with and took my idea and ran. Would love to know what visuals this piece brings to mind for you as you listen! Thank you all for the feedback, looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

This is completely off-topic (you know me) but I just checked the bank, and Noteflight where I enter my music not only held my yearly $49 payment last month for seven weeks showing it as paid, and sent it to the bank when I had no money, they sent it in again this month, and I overdrafted, and I only owe it once a year! Incompetent bastards!🤣 Embarrassing, but my mommie is going to cover the overdraft, and I hope there is enough left over for some beer, because I really need it! Also embarrassing, I actually wrote a German Augmented Sixth Chord in this, that hackneyed old trick, and even a diminished seventh chord! Losing my touch perhaps, but it was done pretty fast. I am in the lovely stage of having to listen to my very sad piece over and over, to see if I missed anything in the editing. I'll go on: I will have to, before I meet Kyrylo (he's coming here) touch up my knowledge of Ukrainian composers! Prokofiev is the obvious example, born in what is now Ukraine, Glière I know I have heard but can't recall, any others you guys could suggest? FWIW, I actually WAS thinking of a Prokofiev piece when I wrote the A Section, the slow movement from his eighth piano sonata. Saddest major-key music ever written! 15:12...

It's really cool! I can't say much other than it is a neet and playful piece! I just wrote a funeral dirge this afternoon...

Here is a lovely choral piece I sent him when she first had the heart attack, and I obviously did not write it.

Midnight in Kyiv. He is probably asleep and will read it (hear it) in the morning. He lost his grandmother, his best friend and favorite relative. Come to think of it, I haven't written much in B Major in 38 years, but that is the key it came to me in! I think my sister likes it. She is following this whole Ukrainian friend thing. This also marks the first time in 38 years that I have just sat down and wrote a piece for a friend in need. Yes, my sister likes it! Susan Podzon 4:59 PM (3 minutes ago) to me I love it! You are so sweet UPDATE: Kyrylo usually writes me around quarter to one in the morning, which is quarter to nine in the morning where he is. I'll let you know what he thinks.

A two-hour dash off, so not sure about the part leading! The middle section uses a melody I wrote in college in 1989; just the melody. Для Кирила Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight The Ukrainian Cyrillic title is "For Kyrylo."

As the third installment in my enharmonic perpetual canon cycle, this one follows a procedure nearly identical to that of the first one and is quite similar in duration as well. The lyrics (once again, in Latin) sung by the choir translate as follows: "Change is inevitable in all things. Everything flows in the balance of those who are tempestive." As with the previous installment, the coda further drives the meaning to greater clarity and realization. YouTube video link:

You’re welcome. And after writing that, I realized that your flute & clarinet were the same dynamic, so maybe it’s just a thing you could solve using Musescore’s mixer then exporting? But at the same time, the flute’s middle range speaks very clearly and the clarinet’s middle range (written C4-Bb4) speaks the least clearly. Live players could more easily be instructed to match dynamics if you made a note. I don’t know which would be the most effective option, lowering the flute dynamic, raising the clarinet, and/or using 2 clarinets, depending on if you want it live or to sound cohesive online. But I think you’ll figure something out:)

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A score would help us. May we please have it.

This is my first symphony, it is a very rough draft, not produced and the dynamics are not correct. But other than that, any suggestions to it? I am a bit stuck with my third movement. Synpmony No I BrotherMichael.mp3

Genius!

Good morning. I have not forgotten about your piece, just spinning many plates. I would like to purchase access to the three-part version. Please let me know how to make that happen. Best wishes, terri

La banda de Mozart - 26 - Ópera Delirante You know, bro, now that I think of it and am getting through the one-season series, Mozart's Band, better en Espanol but cool in English, is like a benevolent Spanish South Park; the kids are not the actual classical composers, but are like The Monkees, who wanted to be The Beatles! The composer names are nicknames, though Mozart in this has Mozart's actual hair! Beethoven is Benevolent Cartman, the fat kid (bad because real Beethoven had edema, not body fat) and is mischievous like Ringo in the Beatles, and is the drummer in Mozart's rock/classical crossover band. The real South Park Cartman is of course the most truly evil cartoon character in history. This is a benevolent 1995 Spanish Classical Music Themed South Park Type Cartoon! ... [Message clipped] View entire message Attachments area Preview YouTube video La banda de Mozart - 26 - Ópera DelirantePreview YouTube video La banda de Mozart - 26 - Ópera Delirante Anyway, an e-mail to my brother that is hardly private! This cartoon gets music notation right, and little tidbits like a classical or romantic symphony manuscript is always neat because the composer works little bit by little bit! It is rich, and I prefer it in Spanish with English subtitles.

May please have a pdf copy of score.

huh.pdf my 11th composition would love feedback : D

Thanks a lot, Peter.