I've finished the score to my fourth violin sonata and have made the score and parts available.
Violin Sonata #4 - Score
Violin Sonata #4 - Violin Part
http://www.jeffreyharrington.org/mp3/Jeff-Harrington-Sonata_for_Violin_and_Piano_4.mp3
I'm currently writing a short fanfare for the Dallas Wind Ensemble call for scores. I'd written a piece last year which wasn't picked. In thinking about why, I realized it really wasn't a fanfare at all. I'd also never uploaded the score and parts so here they are:
Hurricane Party Parts - Zip File
Hurricane Party Score
Hurricane Party for Large Brass Ensemble - Synthesized Realization
Big news! We moved to a tropical desert island off the west coast of Florida in December after I was laid off from my 6 figure computer programming job in January. It's completely bike-centric, ecologically-minded and 75% bird sanctuary/mangrove swamp. The rest is housing for extremely rich people, including a lot of celebrities.
The island is famous for some of the most beautiful beaches and the best sea-shelling in the Western Hemisphere. Over 1500 different types of shells. There are birds everywhere. Loggerhead sea turtles nest on the beach. We have a red-shouldered hawk living in the jungle behind the parking lot. There's an osprey nest in our backyard! We downsized so we can live without working off of our savings over the past 11 years and I can just work on music. I can always do a little freelance work if that doesn't work out. Plus there are plenty of tourist t-shirt shops I could get a cashier's job at! Haha...
We're renting a tiny apartment in the back of a high-end strip mall with a fossil shell parking lot as our front yard and it's fantastic! I ride my bike to a deserted tropical beach every day and walk for about 2 hours and then come back and have lunch and get to work on my music. I'm not that worried about not being in NYC for my career because most of my music performances are outside NY and are web-connected.
Google Map of Sanibel, Florida
Sanibel Island Flickr Photostream
So far I've composed two new pieces, gotten 4 scores polished and have started a new one... so I think it's going to work. Main risk was the $$$ and getting our own health insurance but things are looking pretty good. Got the health insurance going last week. Freakin' nightmare... And we've stopped eating out and got a bread machine to save more $$$.
Anyways... I'd rather live off of absolutely nothing than work another year in a cubicle farm with no natural light in NYC with crazy people!
Posted by jeff at May 28, 2008 02:07 PM