Minerva: Park City High School Symphony for Strings 1st Movement finished
After watching a concert with the Park City High School's Chamber Orchestra, I felt inspired by one of the students who created a string orchestra arrangement of music from the movie "Howl's Moving Castle." I asked the orchestra director if I could write an original piece for his class, and he consented. I started working on it over Thanksgiving break and finished it up just a few days ago (minus minor editing). Here is the SoundCloud link: There have been lots of great things I've learned from this experience. For me, this is the fastest I've ever put together a piece of this magnitude, and it has been such a refreshing feeling to finish something I've worked on. One of the great things that I decided to do as I worked on this project was to have a deadline. None was given to me by the orchestra teacher, but I knew that the group would appreciate having it sooner rather than later, so I set the deadline as the end of February. Having the pu...