Michael Henry Tillman

This has been a good week and it’s only Tuesday.

Primary things that have happened – I got my recital date for my senior project, and turned in my graduation application. Spring 2012, the semester I actually get that 16 year old bachelor’s degree. Better late than never?

Yep. Definitely.

On the recital I hope to include 4 interesting non-standard pieces:

My arrangement of the National Anthem, my arrangement for cello and guitar of the Adagio from Vivaldi’s Guitar Concerto (actually, his concerto for Lute and Strings, RV 93), a Bulerias by Juan Martin, and my arrangement of Webber’s Pie Jesu for voice and guitar – because everybody loves pie. Steven Ramirez is going to play cello on the Vivaldi and Joanna Ceja is going to sing the Pie Jesu. I’m quite excited about this.

Incidentally, for those of you in DFW who are interested in attending, it is on Saturday, April 21, at 5:00 p.m. in Eberly Hall.

In other news, my duo with Kristin Fraley (Calm Embrace) is on the verge of having a 10 song set, which is exciting. She wrote the lyrics, I wrote the music. It even fits together.

I’ve been getting up a lot earlier in the morning to practice. My practice regimen includes 1 hour of technique, 1 hour of running through a repertoire list (takes about 3 days to get through the current list) and then one hour on the focus pieces for the week. This week it’s Lagrima, Adelita (both by Tarrega), and Andreina (by Lauro.)

In the forums you’ll see a little board in the middle called “Retro Dungeon.” A Norwegian friend of mine is working on an indie 3D game title, and I have begun writing music for it. A sample piece is Retroitus 2 (there is a ’1′, but it lacks the string theme):

http://soundcloud.com/michael-henry-tillman/retroitus-2-by-michael-tillman

So, January has been a good month. And we are digging into 2012 already. The Mayans are running out of time, but I feel like I’m just getting started.

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