Greetings post-Kansas City AGO National Convention! It’s Sunday and I am both rejuvenated and quite tired. There was so much: great music, workshops, and some very powerful worship ceremonies. I was particularly fond of the dance pieces I saw as they were very moving (pun intended – but seriously, I had to hold back tears). It was so nice to see old friends, make new ones, and there is never enough time to really take it all in. But of course, for me, the premier of the Sonata No. 1, was a high point.
I was commissioned by the National Convention to write a work that the average organist can play and that would be useful for both church services and concerts. In my mind, a sonata seems the perfect form for that expectation. Sonatas are fluid things: the individual movements can work independently while becoming a larger, cohesive whole when done together. Jennifer Pascual played the premier excellently. The Sonata No. 1 is available through Selah publishing. I am so proud and humbled to be presenting this to you all!
And now some shameless self-promotion. I have created a $5 coupon good for anything in the store. Just use “agokc2018” during checkout to receive the discount and enjoy the music you purchase. The coupon is good until the end of August and thank you for supporting my compositions. Happy playing out there! (PS: To be clear, the coupon works on my site, not Selah’s.)
