Bless you Pat, but I'm losing my interest in the "direct connection". It loses luster as it gains familiarity. And provides a lethal distraction from what is ultimately most important to me--the rational ordering of notes of music and of their correllating ideas

Well thanks David. I can appreciate that you enjoy composing more than performing. I definitely enjoyed the shows while they lasted however. Have you caught the teaching bug this semester? If I'm guessing I'll bet you did.

If you meet the Buddha, kill him. The music that I make for myself, I make for myself. The music that I make for the marketplace is readily available, and the "professional" work I'm doing now will be readily available, soon enough. You will probably not like it. It will be on soundtrack albums. The "other" music, the more personal music, is less and less valuable to the market, but more and more valuable to me, and more difficult to both create and reproduce. You here on this page have shown interest in that other music, and I thank you for that. If and as genuinely personal music appears from me, I'll share it with you as best as I can, but in a quiet quiet way. I will never promote it, and it will only exist if nature allows it to. That much I have learned.

What more could we ask for? I hope the orchestra thing works out. I hope you will consider doing the occasional appearance. I  was excited when you mentioned that you and Will might do some solo acoustical dates a few months back.

Distribute it free, mass-produce it. I don't care. I wont whine or prosecute. It's yours now, as will other music that comes to be from similar circumstances.

Do I hear the Don Merideth song in the background? :):)Thanks for the info David

Pat Brown