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A Week in the Life #2

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

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A Week in the Life #1

Here are some things which have been occupying me musically and personally over the last week.

Professionally, I’ve been quite busy. My day job sapped a lot of my energy. But work leads to success, and I’ve set a goal to be better at my day job. I made the Top 10 for sales for the first time this week!

Musically, I’ve been having a lot of fun listening lately. I normally listen to podcasts or audiobooks, just because music is my job, and it’s nice to escape that at times. But I am researching for some big projects, so I’m listening to a ton – music for saxophone, specifically, and chamber music that comes up in my social media/YouTube feeds. I’m enjoying a recent recording of a composition of mine, which was featured on a score video channel (content continues below video):

As far as writing goes…I’m revising a band march I wrote last year, and readying some other scores for sending out to publishers. I’m working on a Christmas-themed piece for band based on my Latvian heritage. And I’m starting my #2024saxophoneproject (details here). And I’m starting to think more like an entrepreneur…especially regarding social media engagement.

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

Posted 1/27/24

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