7.11.07

Got to shout out to the world:

Yesterday was a high point of my composing / music career ...

We recorded the Eroica Trio playing 20+ minutes of music for the film
Eavesdrop at Legacy Studios. At one point yesterday, producer of the
film Chris Fetcko asked me, "if money were no object on this film, who
would you have wanted to play this music?" I said the Eroica Trio. Two
weeks ago that was a dream. Everything fell into place very quickly and
yesterday ....

the Eroica Trio were playing my music. At another point, it was mentioned they were asked do some of Billy Joel's classical music .. but turned it down - they didn't like his "classical" work. (Kind of wild that one point he was considered as an actor for the composer character that eventually played by Terennce Mann.) Some how between the right timing, friendly interplay in phone calls, mockup's of the music, preliminary versions of the charts sent via email, they heard enough to agree to do it - but only if in one day. This meant that I have to have every detail completely thought and worked out. No reading session as originally planned. The down side - 16 to 20 hour days with nothing else on my brain for the last 2 weeks.
It was all worth it ...
How many composers, filmmakers, etc. get the very cast there were hoping for? To know the story of how I came to know them and why this day was so important, we must go back 10 years. I had just moved to New York, for some reason (I think because I was a BMI member and had several music and classical music magazine subscriptions) I was invited to their debut cd release (on EMI classical) party at the New Yorker Hotel. The invitation itself made me feel special - heavy weight paper, sealed envelope inside envelope. I was fresh of the boat to the city - really green, very poor and feeling very much in love with the Big Apple but deep down still a scared boy from texas. I think I was temping at BUG (Brooklyn, where I now reside, ironically enough, Union Gas at the Metrotech Center) feeling relieved to make $17 an hour for couple of weeks filling a chair. I know I went there (picture long hair in a pony tail, cacky's and white shirt with tie - the official temp uniform) because there would be free music, free food/drinks, possibly a cd and maybe I would meet somebody. I congratulated the composer who arranged the Gershwin and briefly spoke to these three amazing musicians. Kind of reminded me of the Dixie Chicks - absolutely burning world class musicians and easy on the eyes. I did not know it then, but a dream was born that night. I did get a free cd (and this is back when I only had maybe 40 cds total any way.) Be it on cd or ipod, I have listened to
them playing Ravel's Piano Trio countless times.

Mmmm....
What can happen in 10 years? A dream you did not even know you had can come true and bliss you out.
Now, I need to bookend this by announcing that there has been a lot of other amazing stuff going on just weeks prior ...
30 minutes of music composed and performed by myself for another film - Lucky Days ( about a 2 month process from meeting the writer/ director Angelica Torn for the first time to completion), as well as 5 minutes of a mini-opera on spec for children's tv composed and demo delivered in a week ( I'll be writing songs / music for two shows come September
- one on noggin, the other on BBC.) There are as many as 3 other films I am slated to begin some time in next 6 months or so ... all this and my first feature "Everything's Jake," has not even been officially distributed / released yet. (The Warner Bro's distribution will mean a larger audience than anything I've done thus far.)

Anyway, I'm a very happy man ... and about to be even happier - spending a week with my favorite person at our favorite place:
psvresort.com

Thanks to everyone that has supported me. As artists, we often live without a net or a map - but for today, everything that did not make sense before suddenly does ... it was to get to HERE and NOW.

-c