Though it is 'in press' at Studio Music it has been for a few years and I am not holding my breath over when it will be dealt with. It may never! I like this piece very much! I enjoyed what Brydie Bartleet said about it (above) and her insight. She knows my music reasonably well and is a capable and considerate musician.
Paul Whear's commentary is also valued. I enjoy his compositions and, given my attraction to some of them, I am considerate of his considerations.
I have also written about the work in this Journal It's a very stream of consciousness journal that has some fascinating insights. I say at one stage how I 'love this time', the time of sitting and orchestrating. Just a few lines later I talk about how defeated I feel because I can't get to finish the scoring because of all that is going on. As I re-read such comments I relive them too. I know how it feels, to not be able to finish the score, and to see the words describing it takes me back to the moment well, moments really; it has happened a number of times over the years.
When I gaze back at the work that started 25 years ago, mentioned above, I feel that what has developed most is not an explosion in harmonic language or rhythmic inventiveness or any other musical component in composition but perseverance. What I have now is a more considered approach to a works creation and how I allow the musical materials to develop and evolve.
In various journals here I talk of the aide memoir that is the sketch. When I looked at sketches made 25 years and more ago I see ideas that are being worked on, not fully formed ideas that are being born, as is the case with much of my sketching process now. It is in the realm of others to explore that in more depth but it seems that patience and perseverance are what have developed in my process more than anything else.