Talk, or do?
My dear friend Bob Roberts once said (in regard to blogging), “It’s better to do than to sit around and talk about doing.” Compositionally speaking, I usually spend the majority of each week’s time “doing”, and once a week or so, “talk about doing.”
The last several weeks, though, I haven’t had time to “talk about doing”- I’ve just been “doing”- which makes for a rather lean blog. 
I do have several forthcoming publications to blog about, but the Monster Known As De Profundis has really overwhelmed me recently. After spending my entire spring break working on our new house in Greenville (and therefore accomplishing NOTHING on my dissertation), it’s really been crunch time. My dear wife has been taking care of all things domestic so that I can just sit at the computer every waking moment and work, work, work.
My dissertation defense is April 10, and so copies are due to my committee members April 3- five days from now! So the next five days will be spent editing, proofing, formatting, re-editing, re-proofing, re-formatting (repeat ad nauseum). But the end is in sight. And the piece has really come together. I can’t listen through it without being overwhelmed, even as much as I’ve heard it. I’ve actually been in tears more than once at the end (from musical response, not frustration, although that’s almost happened a few times too, a couple months ago!) I hope the piece meets with a similar response with the listening world at large, in the future.
Other forthcoming events include audio of The Fruit of the Spirit, two Beckenhorst anthems this spring, a trip to Arizona in a couple weeks, a trip to western Kansas for a couple sacred concerts, a big move to Greenville, a Christmas cantata from Soundforth finally being released within a couple months, and several forthcoming commissioned pieces already simmering.
All that to say, Bob is right- It’s better that I’m “doing” than “talking about doing”. But I promise- my blog will get more active again in a couple weeks!
Off to “do”…
