art songs

Slowly chipping away at my song cycle, I have a stanza and a half-ish to go in this sonnet i've set for mezzo-soprano and piano. This is the 4th poem I've set; the imagery in this sonnet is the most sexual out of e e cummings poems i've set thus far. Lines like "hips pumping pleasure into hips" don't really leave much to the imagination, but yet I have to use my imagination to paint modal/tonal picture of the text. Imaginaaaaaaation

I have to do some editing before I submit the 3 songs i've completed for grading this term, TERM ALMOST OVER! I'm excited to write the final, 5th song over the winter break so I can move on to writing Owen a solo cello piece next term.

I'm also hatching a plan for next term to write a piece for a couple of my band mates from Clambake that have started a killer new group called Terracoustic with bassist Josh Feinburg. I'm pretty stoked to record Clambake's long belated first album at Ben Blechman's Terracoustic Studios; working and playing gigs with Ben and Tim can only help me when it comes to writing for their Terracoustic group.