Piano Score Stella By Starlight

Hi Fred,

The ambience of You Must Believe in Spring from what you've done with the performance, not the manuscript. My point was that it sounds like a recording of a live performance.

A pencil did me little good. I found out by the time I was sixteen that enough erasures make reading almost impossible, and that lines with arrows to circles around other places on the page where corrections were put in makes follows following the lines way too confusing...in short, I found out that by the time I had copied and re-copied enough, I was using a ton of paper to get a readable couple of pages (and I only tried writing for the piano back then). When I steeled myself to write a couple of things I was asked to (many years later), things hadn't changed, other than that I had several instruments to deal with. It took over a week, using all my free time, to get a readable manuscript of a short duo for flute and cello that we played at a wedding. If I had had Composer, the writing, the editing, and printing of scores for both instruments could have been completed in one evening and left me time to watch the late movie.

Does the thunderbird still fly? After that night of Shakespeare and Oscar Brand, I never looked for him again. I don't think he would compete very well with my glass of Pinot Noir with dinner. What a gross thought...

all best,
mgj