Just got asked to write for another live performance

[fusilierb]

Sweet. I just got an email asking me to write a piano/solo violin piece to be performed at Artfest in Baton Rouge in April.

Backstory, I recently had a piece that was selected to be performed with seven other composers at a concert in New Orleans that was set up to premier new music for orchestra. When the original email went out to those who got selected, I recognized a name that I hadn't heard since college. It couldn't be that Kevin George? But he was from New Orleans and this was New Orleans, so I wasn't so sure. We were composition majors at LSU at the same time, from 90-94. He wasn't my best friend, but we took almost every class together, had our pieces shredded down by the same professor on a weekly basis, groaned through the same history classes, were performed on the same recitals and did a respectable amount of drinking together and laughing a lot. I hadn't seen him since the day I graduated and we hadn't talked at all since then. I had tried to locate him in the last few years and couldn't find anyone who knew anything about him or where he was living these days.

So I walk into the rehersal (late) and the first person I run into is Kevin and its like we had only seen each other just yesterday. They were wrapping up rehearsing his piece when I came in and we pretty much missed the last three pieces being rehearsed because we were laughing so much in the back of the hall, just like we used to. Meeting back up with him was really better than having my piece performed. He's now a music professor at the local college.

I'm away from New Orleans in Houston for another year, so I haven't seen him since. So when I get this random email tonight asking me to write something for this thing I've never heard of, I almost thought it was a strange new form of spam until I read, Kevin recommended you.

I love Kevin and music is all about connections. Time to start writing, it's due Feb 15.

B

[crystallions]

Wow - what a wonderful, wonderful, story! Huge congratulations!!!

[deantaylor]

Cool Bryan. It's fun meeting up with old friends years later.
Have fun writing it. I know you will!

[rnrmachine]

Way cool story... Once you are done I hope you plan to post it for us. I would like to hear it. Good Luck with it!!!

Rob

BTW... I hope you revisit that piece you did when you were 17... "The Quest"... I seriously think that could become a masterpiece if you go over it and impart your knowledge of today into it. That combined with your dreams of yesterday would to me, imho, make that piece amazing. Of course... only after you get this project done.

[fusilierb]

Thanks all. It really was fun to meet up with him again. I'd always wondered what had happened to Kevin.

Rob, I actually re-transcribed that thing into my computer about six months ago thinking I was going to go back to it. Then I got lazy. I'm getting a recording of a better performance soon. I'll send you a link. That grouped actually rehearsed it.

[rnrmachine]

VERY cool! Definitely send me a link when you're done.

Rob