Review of the Concert

A Bowdoin professor emailed me this review of the November 10th concert, and it seems like everyone just had an awesome time. As for my plans during the rest of my vacation, they include working on my Research in Music final project, and perfecting my Broccoli Casserole recipe for Thursday. All the old high school buddies should be popping in pretty soon as well, and I can't wait to see everybody. It's gonna be really weird heading back to Indianapolis on Monday morning, but it will also be nice to focus on my work again.

Portland Press Herald's Review

Ok, one more quick thing. I noticed I hadn't included any pictures in a while, but Eben sent us this picture of an LOLcat from icanhascheezburger.com

I've seen better, but still nice. Gabe was similarly not impressed, and thought he could do something better with a little Photoshop Magic. We originally only planned to spend a couple minutes on it, but it turned into quite a masterpiece. Here's our final version:


So, what do you think? Notice all the shadows? How beautiful is that pylon? Take that Ebenezer

Living the dream

So yeah, it's been a while, my cousin got married, the Red Sox won the world series, and the Patriots squeaked out a win against an apparently better team that reminded me of the San Diego game in last year's playoffs, but the main reason I'm writing this is because of my weekend at Bowdoin. They commissioned a piece from me, my "Partita for Solo Orchestra" which I worked on all summer, and it was finally performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, an insanely talented and wonderful ensemble that made Saturday's concert unforgettable. It was an honor just to be included amongst the other alumni and professors, but the experience itself couldn't have been any better. Plus, back at Butler they happened to be performing another piece of mine, entitled "Marimbecile," and it sounds like that concert also went well really. So now I'm basking in the Boston glow, hanging out until Thanksgiving, and still thinking about how beautiful this weekend was. I could get used to this.

Bowdoin Website article
Bowdoin Orient article