Six-Word Aphorisms for February:

February 19, 2018

Surfaces often change. Fundamentals underneath don’t.

February 17, 2018

Composing. Separate yet close, ordering world.

February 15, 2018

You think you’re finished. Are you?

February 11, 2018

Stimulus, refuge, protection, insecurity: your music.

Oh to revise! Erase and replace. (while reducing an orchestration at the request of a conductor)

February 10, 2018

Be aware. Work well. No delusions.

February 6, 2018

Closed system: lid on the saucepan.

Wine/coffee stains: signs of devotion?

Season manuscript: spill wine on it.

February 3, 2018

Requiring other composers’ constraints=style tyranny?

February 2, 2018

Remain poised on your creative precipice.  What will happen?