Writing some new wind/string arrangements for my Puffin concert in March. Need some more pieces to supplement the arrangements on Sides, Colors.
I also want to give the guys a chance to blow, which they didn’t have on the CD. Doing an arrangement of Beatrice which will feature Anders Bostrom (although he doesn’t know it yet), and an arrangement of a new waltz of mine which I wrote for my cat Claude right before he passed away. I think we’ll do a couple of Mintz classics as well including Shmear and Idy’s Dance. (I was thinking we should have a multi-media installation at the concert so people can see the music video we made of Idy’s Dance while we play it.