Guess what is happening tomorrow? It is the KWS reading of the WLU student composers’ pieces! Holy crap, I am so excited. Dan Warren is conducting my piece, and Jim has to be at a Divisional Council meeting, so he is getting Dick to sub.  So you see, all my fears are assuaged! It will be a good time, although apparently I am only allowed to have 2 guests–they can only fit about 20 chairs into the CITS Studio. Still, I’ll have a recording, and will probably post it here, if I am allowed. I’m told I’ll have to sign my life away regarding its use, but who knows?

Congratulations go to Agatha and Andrew who both got into their grad schools of choice! Agatha will be going to NYU for a Masters in Film and Television Composition next year, and Andrew got into both the University of Western Ontario (with a sweet scholarship!) and the University of Toronto, so way to go, guys! We’ve been hearing about the compositional lives of the senior students in seminar recently. It is interesting! Everyone has such a different approach. Andrew’s sketchbooks are filled with doodles and scribbles and his music strikes me as very…I don’t actually know how to describe it.  Agatha’s music is sparse and makes you listen, and uses quite a lot of electroacoustics. David’s music is modern, and terrifically harmonically structured (you can take “terrific” in either sense, there). Phil’s music is algorithms and Python, and is really cool to think about. Clara is writing a musical for kids for her grad project! From what I heard, it doesn’t sound cheesy or simplistic like so many musicals are, and it has the sense-of-humour seasoning that I’ve heard in her music before, so I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. Pat is doing an Improv/Composition double major, his improvs are always based on other things, which is intriguing (although probably much less my style). Matt’s music has a lot of grounding in both pop tradition and classical tradition music–his orchestra piece has a lot to do with Jamiroquai, for example. It is a very mixed bag, and made me wonder what I am going to say next year, if I get this opportunity.

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