I'm on a week away from my day gig, chipping away at some BIG arranging projects. The music on my desktop right now is about 700 measures...

I might have tried to transcribe something as awesome as the first movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony decades ago - I might have even...

Musings on Copyright

Conductors who can't lift their head out of the score are a pet peeve. It usually means they don't trust their own understanding of the...

I wrote something yesterday that was confusing even to me when I read it again today. Mea culpa. The offending sentence was: Wright notes...

Many years ago, I was walking past Bill Stanley’s trombone studio at CU Boulder and heard a most remarkable thing. I stuck my head in the...

Renaissance keyboard music is really fun to arrange. The simplicity of the music (well, at least some of it) lends itself to crafty...

Many years ago, my friend and colleague Bill Stanley (professor of trombone, University of Colorado at Boulder) pointed me towards an...

I wrote recently about starting with the bass line when beginning work on an arrangement. That is generally a true statement. However,...

For those that aren't familiar, Grainger frequently reworked his own compositions for instrumentations other than the original. Handel in...