Commissioned by the Meccorre String Quartet!

[IcedNote]

Hi, all. I was prodded by a certain someone to share my news here (instead of just on Facebook), so here I am:

I've been commissioned to write my second string quartet, "Lament: Verse II," for the Meccorre String Quartet! They're a Polish group who are currently studying in Berlin with the Artemis Quartet. They've been on the competition circuit for the past couple of years...and doing damn well for themselves. They're incredibly gifted players, and I'm honored to be working with them.

So yeah, some nice news to return to!

(Of course, I also recently had a big commission fall through due to the ____________________ of the performer. But this is public, so I'll play nice.)

Yin and Yang, right?

-G

[jbuck919]

Congratulations!

Regards,

C. Someone

[diegobueno]

The only commissions that count are the ones that pan out. Looks like you've got a good one.

[IcedNote]

The only commissions that count are the ones that pan out. Looks like you've got a good one.

Ain't that the truth. Unfortunately, I have quite a collection of Almosts. Oh well. If you ask enough girls out, one of them eventually has to say yes, right?

-G

[johnQpublic]

My collection is probably bigger than your collection. LOL

Quite frankly with the quirks that life throws at us composers, I tend to keep mum about any performance, publication, commission, recording, etc. until they've materialized.

[jbuck919]

My collection is probably bigger than your collection. LOL

Quite frankly with the quirks that life throws at us composers, I tend to keep mum about any performance, publication, commission, recording, etc. until they've materialized.

It must be so, since I can't recall your ever telling us that you are a composer.

[johnQpublic]

What??? You mean you didn't read and recall all of my posts over the last 7 years??

[jbuck919]

What??? You mean you didn't read and recall all of my posts over the last 7 years??

All I remember is Maude (I like Soupy Sales better).

[johnQpublic]

Ah! You're a visuals kind of guy.

[jbuck919]

Ah! You're a visuals kind of guy.

No, but didn't you used to post in the Pub as a bit of a conservative? That kind of thing will blot out everything else in my mind.

[IcedNote]

Even I knew that Mr. Public is a composer! But perhaps that's because I'm more keen to listen to a fellow composer than a musicologist.

-G

[johnQpublic]

Is it true that musicologists believe that the only good composers are dead ones?

[Guitarist]

Congratulations. Have they provided any input as to the stylistic content? Form? I think a 45 minute passacaglia and fugue would be nice. (It could be full of lamentation...)

[jbuck919]

Is it true that musicologists believe that the only good composers are dead ones?

I don't know, but some of the ones I knew believed that all dead composers were good ones.

[IcedNote]

Received a very nice mention on Meccorre's homepage, so I thought I'd share. It might not seem like much, but this is the kind of stuff that makes a composer feel all fuzzy inside.

http://www.meccorrequartet.com/en/

Also, I couldn't possibly over-recommend you taking a few minutes to click on their MUSIC heading and listen to some of their recordings. Then you'll understand why I'm so grateful to be working with them.

Also/also, they're currently planning on a 2013 US tour that will include the piece I'm writing for them, so I'll be sure to keep you all posted!

-G

[some guy]

Is it true that musicologists believe that the only good composers are dead ones?

I've been called a musicologist, even sat on a panel in Paris once as such, and I much prefer living composers to dead ones. With a few exceptions.

There are a lot of good composers, living and dead. The living ones are alive.

[John F]

Is it true that musicologists believe that the only good composers are dead ones?

No, it isn't. Some composers have also been musicologists, such as Brahms, who prepared scholarly editions of other composers' music. But their subject, scholarly research into music, is inherently concerned with music of the past. Music of the present is a subject for criticism (in the proper sense), not scholarship, which would be premature, needless, and ridiculous.

[maestrob]

IcedNote: Congratulations on your good news

[karlhenning]

Congratulations, Garrett!

Cheers,
~Karl

[IcedNote]

Thank you, loyal supporters! I won't forget you!

-G