(UPDATED April 28 2024)
It's
almost May now, and finally time is being dedicated to update and do some
maintenance on this site. The last two years have seen a great deal of time given
over to several commitments and events that have burned away many hours; this was
not in keeping with the original plan. However, Life happens.
No new piano pieces have been written in almost two years, and I have missed being
able to put thought to pencil for far too long.
Not to say that sounds and musical lines that I hear in my mind throughout the day
are not being given shape and design. It seems I am still able to configure these
into planned ideas that can be translated into strokes on paper.
It is my hope that, beginning
soon, I will once again sit down at
my keyboards and desk and work towards completing the 26 ACTS project begun over
ten years ago. After years passed of the writing of a
Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis, I decided that some revision would be timely
and helpful. That work is now completed, and an updated file has replaced
the original version (from May 2002).
I will continue to try to bring things in this site - at least a little bit at a
time -
up-to-date. I've worked out modifications to the menus on the top of each page,
which includes adding a RECORDINGS category and re-arranging the SCORES menus on
those particular pages. I will continue to update page notes and descriptions while
removing some of the older news items. The site should shrink to some extent.
Back in August of 2021 Back in August of 2021, I found an opportunity to review the
"MUSIC for a WEDDING" recordings created almost 9 years earlier. For most
of those songs I was able to upgrade the overall sound and performance quality.
Check them out at the top of the MP3-VID PAGE.
In April 2019,
I had mentioned that, during our move back to Toronto, we had discovered a box of
cassette recordings, some of which go back to the late 1970's. Some of these
recordings were of Ron performing in organ recitals at Yorkminster Park, as well as
preludes and music for services throughout the church seasons. Since that time
the files have been digitized and organized, with links to some
of these which are currently placed on the MP3 page.
Along with those recordings, I have inserted
on the Organ Scores Page two MP3 links of recordings for Poème de la Trinité and
Time, Like an Ever Rolling Stream. I do wish the
recording quality was better, but the tapes, complete with background service
noises are on the old side -- and to be honest, I'm surprised that there are any
discernabe sounds at all.
Meanwhile, excerpts from the previous reel-to-reel
tapes from solo piano recitals in 1970, 1973, 1975, and 2004 are still located at the bottom of the
MP3-VID page, along with
videos of Ron's performances in the 2012 Chicago
Amateur Piano Competition (open and semi-final) and his performance at
the U of T Senior College in February 2014.
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