And now I have my very own stick.
It's quite similar to Trommelfeuer's, but the handle is a reddish wood called "purpleheart" rather than the darker Walnuttier handle of hers. (I love Walnut, but they didn't have any when I went to buy mine, and the Purpleheart is pretty too. I ought to make one one of these days.) In other new the new Symphony is progressing apace. I have officially begun renumbering. What had been the first or chamber symphony has been demoted to "Four Sketches" which was the working title anyway. "War" becomes symphony No. 1. And the piece that I am writing presently, loosely based on "Four Sketches," will be Symphony No. 2 in c-sharp minor. The allegro, adagio, and scherzo are complete, but for some bowings and articulations, and of course the inevitable revisions. The finale is under way. Shouldn't take long at this point. Another couple of weeks should see a finished first draft. Trommelfeuer commented a few weeks back (when only the initial allegro was complete) that this is the first of my scores that she would not hesitate to purchase. (She might of course if I charged Sikorsky like prices. But I'm more of a Dover Thrift kind of a man myself.) When said piece is finished, rest assured that I shall make a version of it available for public consumption.
Sincerely,
David Ackerman
Sincerely,
David Ackerman