Too clever by half
The SSAA piece I wrote for the choral concert? Not in it; it was confirmed tonight, although it was a rejection with a view to placing it in another programme. Simply put; it was dissonant enough to stand out like a sore thumb in a programme with one-third of a piece worth of dissonance in ninety minutes, but it is not intrinsically bad, just bad for this concert. Lyndsay asserted there was slightly too much in the way of dissonance, certainly for an acapella piece, and has suggested adding at least some piano accompaniment and/or removing some dissonance.

I had an analogy for this: a young football player of talent, anticipating a moderately weak Division I team to sign him in the summer, is instead told that a top-six team will sign him in January if he improves a couple of elements of his game.

Meanwhile, it was the Showstoppers show pitching. The main show of the year... good heavens, it's Copacabana. Even though I saw the vocal score in the Mennyms audition, I can't believe it. Surely it's just another revue-with-a-flimsy-plot like so many others this decade? And surely I can do something better, or at least more substantial?

Apparently I'm too intellectual in an interest that I know little about...