On Wednesday night I made few final tweaks on "A Mighty Fortress", then posted it to my ReverbNation page.  Sure, the CD is still a long way off, but I wanted to put up something since it's been a little while.  This particular composition took quite some time to complete!  A bunch of other things combined to delay me more than I anticipated, but I'm hoping everything will get back on track with the CD now that life has settled down a little again.

So, as I said, Wednesday night I posted "A Mighty Fortress"; last night I started my next piece, a new arrangement of the hymn "Be Still My Soul".  I had started out thinking of this as an acapella piece; I mentioned in a previous post I'm talking to the acapella group Fourmata to see if they would like to record it.  Last night helped me develop the idea further.  At the moment it's sounding more like it could end up with piano, maybe some light strings (more likely not though, or if so, a small ensemble), and a solo violin or viola- all of this behind the featured vocal part.  I have to make sure Fourmata won't object to doing a piece with instrumentation, though; I'll cross that bridge soon.  But anyway, the composition is already progressing much faster than I anticipated.  I have a pretty good sketch of the piece recorded already, about three minutes worth, and I already have the piece's "roadmap" worked out.  All that in about 30 minutes.  I love when that happens!