Here are some things which have been occupying me musically and personally over the last week.
I seem to be staying busy! I had a great session with my therapist; I’m taking a composition lesson tomorrow; and, I am working this weekend at my state’s music educator conference. Hence, I am writing this post on Tuesday to be posted Saturday.
Musically, I’ve been thinking a lot about chamber music – I rather enjoy this kind of writing, but it doesn’t have much of an audience, compared to my band and orchestra music. This year, I will likely write 3-4 band and orchestra works, and about the same for chamber music. However, chamber music is my focus, hence the #2024saxophoneproject (content continues below).
I’ve also taken some of my writing time to make some much-needed changes to my website – cleaning up some broken links, removing some old works from my catalog (they just aren’t any good, honestly), and streamlining where my outbound links go – specifically, to publishers and SheetMusicPlus, where much of my chamber music and arrangements are distributed. I’m a big fan of their digital sales/licensing model. I’ll be continuing this work where I can. And I’ve changed the theme to be brighter, and hopefully easier to read and interact with.
I’ve experimented with advertising this week – spending some money to (hopefully) increase my web traffic here. I hope my weekly blog will help with that too.
Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments!
Written 1/30/2024
Jason Taurins 