I dreamt last night that I was workshopping an arrangement for full orchestra of Down Along the Canal to Minerva Road (a task which I am in no way actually contemplating) with a friend’s orchestra. Or perhaps I parenthesized over-hastily ... an adaptation for chamber orchestra? Well, not unless some more definite sign come to me from the Universe. I am in fact ruminating an arrangement for saxophone quartet for, well, the friend of a friend, whom I met Easter Sunday. It was certainly a propitious occasion. And unlike the dream, this project is eminently practical. I wrote to him today to verify scoring, so the project awaits that response.
Thoroughly separately, the few measures of bass clarinet and bassoon which I had added to the Opus 197 RRK Fantasia did not age well in my inner ear. Happily, I formed a much better and clearer idea of how to proceed. In brief, where such work in the case of the Opp. 191, 149 and 117 largely consisted in filling out textures/harmonies, those first tentative measures taught me that such an approach would not serve the Op. 197 well. I was going to let the matter rest until tomorrow (today having been rather a busy day) but I found myself ready just to get in a start. I am pleased with the new take, am downing tools for the night, and chilling while the chilling is good.
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