I've just had my pre-hospital talk with my son, who's going to be submitting my chamber music works to a publisher for me after their window opens up at midnight EDT May 1st. (I'll still be in the hospital with no computer.) He's got all of the info I can give him, so here's hoping he can make it through things without a hitch. I've given him 6 works to submit, so hopefully this scattershot approach will mean one of the works will finally get accepted. Wish me luck, please!!!

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Sorry I didn't acknowledge everyone's well wishes as soon as I should have re: my knee surgery tomorrow. I kinda went narcoleptic for a couple of hours there.

It happens, thanks to all of the meds I'm on. My apologies.

It's finally going to happen, CoSo! Tomorrow is the day for surgery to fix my artificial left knee and the joint in which it sits. They're going to remove scar tissue and then install "shims" to keep the joint from wobbling side-to-side. I go in at 5:30am and I'll be admitted overnight, so I'll be out of touch for a while. Please wish me luck, because I'm going to need as much as I can possibly get. Thanks.

Now cooking: Betty Crocker Creamy Potatoes & Bacon, with Chicken & Apple sausage on top. T minus 45 minutes and counting.

#foodporn

@MrGoat Thank you for the CoSo Call! It was great fun.

@jasontrebilcock In a similar vein - not the same, but similar - I've got music picked out to be played at my funeral. It's a piece I wrote for my first album called "Spicewood," and it was dedicated to my late grandparents, who lived in the community of Spicewood on Lake Travis, northwest of Austin, TX. It's a serene piece, and it brings back memories of days spent growing up near the lake.

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/nosanitize

https://youtu.be/dNFl_LVDb3c?si=YLdBxZkeD9kF-xWb

@Susandoyle Seconded. I take advantage of the bandwidth to try and get people to listen to my music, but in return I interact as best as I know how. 😅

@dreandmax I sympathize. We still haven't got our latest rescue cat acclimated to the occasional guest coming over. He skitters on all three legs as fast as he can back to the bedroom and hides.

@dreandmax Pics, please!!!

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CIVIL CIVIC
The Shift

/nosanitize

https://youtu.be/mF72NY1xCGU?si=89xu-2--9boJYdc2

Time to get back to work, this time on an arrangement of a Beethoven piano sonata for a woodwind quartet. This has already gone through a lot of tweaking, but I've changed my style in the months since I last picked it up, so I'm probably going to have a lot more tweaking to do.

Oh, well...here we go.

For any of you following me in my quest to get my music ready for publication, I've just finished slugging it out with one of my earlier works. "Woodwind Quintet No. 1" gave me a hell of a fist fight. I had to rebalance the MP3 demo file, redo the reverb settings, adjust the panning of the ensemble, and enable file numbering on three of the parts (I don't know how it got disabled in the first place). My eyes hurt now. Taking a short break before moving on.

@Dashdrum Thanks for liking Bohemian Galop and Interweave! You haven't heard much from me in the way of wind instrument works because I haven't done that much since I got on a computer in the 90s. I'm better known for doing game music since then (https://leejackson1.bandcamp.com). I'm just now trying to resurrect my wind music skills from prior to the 90s and get things going again. 😅

@Dashdrum
Here's the Mixed Wind septet:

Interweave

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/nosanitize

https://youtu.be/2WqAA5vxehE?si=UIUkl-mgROAWVY8_

@Dashdrum
Here's my French Horn sextet:

Bohemian Galop

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https://youtu.be/MZTPMwz2Vpc?si=FZzGTqeMrfohWgG1

@Dashdrum
Done with breakfast...Thanks for being interested in my music project! A couple of the items I mentioned are up on YouTube. Give me a second and I'll post links to them.

Making good progress on getting the music ready for submitting to the publisher when the window of opportunity opens up on May 1st. My wife is going to have to do the submitting for me, since I'm going to be in the hospital, recovering from knee surgery the day before.

I've got one French Horn sextet, one conventional brass sextet, one woodwind quintet, and one mixed wind septet ready so far. I think I've only got a few more to go.

I'm going to take a break and have some grits for breakfast.