Finally, I’m beginning to see some significant progress as a composer.

I just wrote a short passage for piano, violin, and cello that sounds like a cross between Beethoven and Gluck. The violin part is rather challenging to play, the cello carries the melody, and the piano interjects with a diminished 7th chord at the end. How these composers managed to write entire pieces like this is still beyond me.

It’s going into “Facing Fears”. Believe me, you’ll recognize it; it’s stylistically very different from the rest of the piece (and yet it fits).

Despite the fact that this piece is classified “near complete”, I just keep getting new ideas and I never want to end it. It’s not even that long, but it’s just fun to write. (Which is a little unusual; to me, music is fun to compose and writing is a challenge that I force myself to undergo in order to relay that composition to the world… so it can be promptly ignored). As I mentioned in my Treatise, the music I imagine is quite compelling. The ideas just won’t let me go until I’ve made them manifest. They demand expression.