Busy weekend

Hmmm- my plan to post daily hasn't happened yet- had a very busy weekend despite being unemployed.

Immediate tangent: I can't BELIEVE what the Republicans are saying about unemployment. To insinuate that if you're collecting unemployment you're lazy and unmotivated is just plain heartless.

Back to my weekend: The biggest deal was my arrangement of I am the Walrus for bassoon quartet. I'd been intending to make this arrangement for years but never got 'around tuit' as the saying goes.... We're having a bassoon quartet concert next Sunday and we've got a number of other Beatles tunes, so this seemed like the moment to jump, so I basically spent all of Friday, Sat and most of Sun working on the arrangement.

This blog is about my developing income-generating projects other than my formerly primary job with the symphony, one of those plans is to gather all my arrangements and compositions, print many copies of them, organize them and (hopefully) sell them. I've got a website going - arundonaxmusic.com. A lot of my Facebook friends have expressed interest in the Beatles arrangement already.

Other weekend activities included watching the final World Cup game and the Tour de France.
There was an orchestra party- the first one in a very long time- on Friday night. I taught two students.

Monday morning was the second bsn quartet rehearsal, and the debut of the Walrus arrangement. Much to my relief, it worked very well. May it sell tons of copies!!