At Ease, It May Be

 When leprechauns drop acid, do they think they see people?

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

All I ask is a chance to prove money can’t make me happy.

— Spike Milligan

Well, to get the day’s disappointment over with at the outset: Dear composers,

Thank you so much for entering the 2023-2024 Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize Contest. We had a record breaking near-300 compositions submitted and were delighted with the outstanding quality of repertoire. Congratulations to [those who won.]

However, 13 years ago today:

Henningmusick in the Back Bay this morning, the choir of First Church Boston singing Love is the Spirit [23 Sep 2012]

As reported here, I felt I had found my way with the guitar part for the Opus 203. My work yesterday appears to have borne that aspiration out, and yesterday I [provisionally] finished Aaron’s Uneasy Sleep.

Why provisionally? Because I’m no guitarist and there is every chance that something or other which I wrote into the part just plain doesn’t work on the instrument’s six strings. Also, hey, you never know: this piece may just be a trip that Aaron just doesn’t want to take. And no blame to him. Meanwhile he is busy prepping for both a 30 September King’s Chapel concert and a concert in Newport, Rhode Island on 12 October.

It has occurred to me, though, that I might reach out to Jim Dalton, who erewhile was two of the now long-defunct Ninth Ear’s ears ....