As the interim since my last post on the Elektra-lite project may have indicated, I’ve been a bit off the grid on this project: partially due to the withdrawal of the original commissioning organization, but largely due to tackling other music projects in my own composing career.
Realizing that there are legions of people breathless with suspense over this project, I wanted to restart it with the news that an alternate organization has expressed interest in tackling this reduction of Elektra, potentially in 2017. In the meantime, working on it has proven a tonic pastime in between and even during working on my own compositions, and I can state that note entry and allocation is about 90% complete. Still to come are adding in the myriad dynamics, phrasings, lyrics and stage directions; finding someone to proofread the entire work; extracting the parts, and formatting those and the full score.
I'll continue to post updates on the progress of this edition, thoughts about the original work, my own choices about the instrumental allocations necessitated by the reduced forces. I’ll also post the occasional sneak peek of the score as it progresses. Let’s start at the very beginning…
NB. these sneak peeks will typically very roughly formatted and will not represent the look of the final score.
