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Just a shout-out that C4's November concerts, "Greatest and Latest", will be held this Thursday and Saturday. Lots of great new choral music and a great-sounding choir! Check out http://c4ensemble.org for details.

In more C4-related news, my (almost-done) new piece, "An Ever-Fixed Mark", will be performed by C4 in our February Shakespeare/Elizabethan-themed concert. It's based on Sonnet 116 and I think it's beautiful. Very happy today on the music front.

C4's February concert involves settings of Shakespearian texts. I was originally going to enter the Pacific Chorale's competition with this piece, and the theme being love, I chose Sonnet 116 as my text ("Let me not to the marriage of two minds admit impediments").

Normally, I try to rush through a piece, finishing in time for a competition, but never quite loving the results (and, more recently, not placing). This time I tried something new - I was patient with myself and my writing, and gave up on the contest. This gave me a month more to work on the piece.

It's pretty much done now, and I think it sounds pretty good! Hopefully it shows some growth in my ideas. I submitted it to the C4 Repitoire Committee. I hope this one gets performed! It's called "An Ever-Fixed Mark." Will keep you updates!