Yay for Music Being Done!

OK, so the music (at least for this performance- I'm sure I'll revise it another five times) is finished, and I like all but one song.  I'm not going to say which song I don't particularly like, but the good news is I don't particularly hate it either.

I had great fun over the past few days going to the on-campus copy center and getting to know their staff very well while printing out all this music for my performers.  Today I printed out my own personal score that I'll use to conduct (I've decided that things will be a lot easier if I conduct, and Professor Serghi encouraged this).  The result is an extremely thick score, 57 pages of 11 by 17 paper containing 20 songs.  I imagine that with incidental music the final score should run around 65 pages, if formatted correctly.  I REALLY need to go back and format.  Finale, the music program that I use, has so many ways to precision-engineer your score that it actually makes it MORE difficult to make it produce something that looks decent.  

I spoke with Professor Serghi the other day about the paper that I have to write as part of this thesis- sounds pretty easy.  All I have to do is spend 15 pages talking about the process of writing Usher.... so basically I get to go back, read all of my blog posts, and synthesize the information.  Thanks, blogger!

Now... on to that string quartet rehearsal...