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Evelyn's Updates
Friday, 4 July 2008
Music Paperwork
Mood:
 energetic
Topic: Music Updates
The last few days I've been seriously working toward completing my Opus listing database. (For the uninitiated, an opus list is a comprehensive list of the music written by the composer in question.) So far, I have over 200 in the list, and I'm not even halfway through the alphabet. It's been really hard to make myself keep at it; I keep getting sidetracked with revisions that I could be making. I keep thinking about things that need to be added to the database, too. Anyway, after I get done with this mindnumbingly boring task, I'm going to get back to editing the music into a final useable and/or presentable format--MORE boring paperwork. But it's the price I pay for the really creative parts; I wouldn't want all my hard work to go unheard because no one knows about it or because it isn't ready for a performer to use. TGFM.
Posted by evelyn4music
at 8:47 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, 4 July 2008 9:03 PM EDT
Friday, 6 June 2008
April Fools
Mood:
 down
Topic: Music Updates
Steve brought me my SASE today; yup, it was a very nice rejection letter from the publisher to whom I submitted a couple songs--that I'd sent out on Apr. 1. Then, like an idiot, I got mad at HIM for saying "I'm sorry" instead of "it's that publisher's loss." I am sooooo not in control of my reactions. Anyway, I'm back to trying to figure out HOW to get publishers to accept my work. I'm now back to trying to finish my opus list and file everything that I still like and toss everything that I don't. And then it's back to the drawing board . . . TGFM
Posted by evelyn4music
at 3:16 PM EDT
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Mood:
 lyrical
Topic: Music Updates
I've been writing music most of today. Not sure whether I'm going to keep the music I did, though. The last movement of my "Festival" for 10 flutes is fast music and fast music needs to be pretty simple so that all those notes don't get in the way of the music. I think I'll let it settle for a while before deciding. TGFM
Posted by evelyn4music
at 8:49 PM EDT
Friday, 4 April 2008
Mood:
lyrical
Topic: Music Updates
My brain is a sieve! I remembered that I HAD submitted some music a while ago, but most of it was just arrangements and because of that, I'd eliminated it from the "submitted, but rejected" category. Anyway, there WAS a piece in there that I'd used a text from a piece that that publisher had published and I sent my own setting to them because of their text. Turns out that the text was public domain, and they had said they would "keep it around in case they found a spot for it." Well, they kept it well over the usual 12 week turnaround time, so I emailed the editor and asked them to please make a decision. They did: Rejection #1. It was actually a very nice rejection, to be sure, but still a rejection. But it didn't kill me. TGFM.
Posted by evelyn4music
at 7:45 PM EDT
Thursday, 3 April 2008
About April Fools
Mood:
 bright
Topic: Music Updates
Every little thing that I manage to FINISH now seems like I've run the Boston Marathon, and the tiniest mental breakthroughs feel like victories. Like the other day--I was listening to classical music while driving. The local PBS radio doesn't broadcast the written names of the music it plays (like some pop & country stations), so I was guessing--and hoping the piece would get done before my journey's end so I could find out if my guess was right. The piece was obviously 19th century, but I didn't really recognize it at first, running it through the "usual suspects" first. Then there was "something" about a chord progression and the orchestration that I thought I recognized. Sure enough, the composer WAS Saint Saens and the piece was his "Organ" Symphony. I think I've heard it twice (?)-- never a live performance, but his "voice" was obvious and I identified it. Brain may have lost 20 IQ points, but isn't totally dead. I've also decided that it's time that I overcame--or at least ignored--my fear of rejection and started submitting music to publishers. The worst they could do is reject it, and I've been rejected before and lived through it, so . . . I sent out my first formal submission on April Fools' Day! That ought to be appropriate. TGFM!
Posted by evelyn4music
at 11:18 PM EDT
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Listen to my music
Mood:
lyrical
Now Playing: REFLECTIONS for Marimba, Choir & Organ
Topic: Music Updates
Listen to REFLECTIONS for Marimba, Choir & Organ, (c) 2007, Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke.
Posted by evelyn4music
at 1:11 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 1:18 PM EDT
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Creativity & Dreams
Mood:
 incredulous
Topic: Music Updates
"Getting creative uses the same brain circuitry as is used in dreaming." I am SO amazed that they could actually observe this. (See March 3 blog entry.) I had noticed that I dreamed a lot when I'm NOT writing and hardly dreamed at all when I'm writing a lot, but it never occured to me that this was scientifically provable. http://www.examiner.com/a-1270260~Study__Creativity_Jazzes_Your_Brain.html TGFM
Posted by evelyn4music
at 10:33 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 1:07 PM EDT
Friday, 22 February 2008
Composer
Mood:
lyrical
Topic: Music Updates
Listen!Did you hear it? That melody’s alive and breathes With subtle text and poignant line And haunting harmonies. No! Your face reveals it; You haven’t heard what I feel. What I hear as magical, alive, Just leaves you cold as steel. Wait! Don’t turn away yet. You haven’t heard the whole. Lips, hands and heart must grasp its form Before you feel its soul. Copyright © 2008, Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke
Posted by evelyn4music
at 5:07 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 22 February 2008 5:11 PM EST
Friday, 15 February 2008
15 more seconds of fame
Mood:
lyrical
Topic: Music Updates
Here's the article from the neighboring town's newspaper about our concert. I thought the picture was QUITE cool, especially since the concert/artshow was titled "Artistic Reflections." http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=ENTERTAINMENT&ID=61321 TGFM
Posted by evelyn4music
at 2:12 PM EST
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
More about the Artistic Reflections Program
Mood:
lyrical
Topic: Music Updates
I'm having quite a mental merry-go-round reviewing the concert; each piece, in turn, becomes my favorite. What an adrenaline RUSH it's been to have ALL of the performances deserve to be my favorite. The best part has been having the MUSICIANS in the audience come up to me and say things to the effect of, "I was surprised that your antiphonal music WORKED!" It is so cool that a musical gamble--based on the length of the hall's reverberations--paid off. Of course, if the musicians performing the piece hadn't been so wonderful, it wouldn't have worked. It didn't hurt anything that the percussionist--the solo marimba player--was the one who had to work with the sound-lag. (For the majority of the music, I had tried to make the lag be part of the music instead of being something you had to ignore.) The singers got to be in their usual place. The other very cool thing was that the performance my overture for solo marimba was apparently so exciting that people clapped for it, even though the entire work was not finished, even though they had maintained the usual "applaud after ALL the movements are done" decorum for the other multiple movement works on the program.
Posted by evelyn4music
at 2:43 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 3:39 PM EST
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