My piece performed, and other things on my mind

This past week has been amazing!  Last week I scheduled three rehearsals with some awesome performers for a performance of my brass quintet (with added bass drum), and they performed very well at the Oregon Composers Forum (OCF) concert last Saturday night! 
Here is the recording from Saturday night:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53528622/05%20Track%2005.wav
The next day I was able to repeat the same performance (but without the bass drum) in front of a bunch of brass players at a Monday night class called Brass Class.  I normally don't attend Brass Class because I actually have an Eastern European Folk Ensemble rehearsal during that time, but I took an absence in EEFE so that I could have my piece performed again.

In rehearsing with performers I always learn something very wonderful:  that I absolutely love performers (or at least ones as awesome as here)!  They enjoy playing new music and are really nice with the composer, and being able to guide the rehearsals is wonderful because it gives you a chance to really befriend these people!  Meeting performers that like playing your music has to be one of my favorite parts of being a composer.


Now for something else that's been on my mind that I want to get out.  Sometimes I feel a little lonely and wish I had a female companion to spend time with.  That feeling has been growing gradually for the past couple of years, and lately it's really been on my mind a lot.  I often think about the people I'm interested in, and try to determine who I would want to ask out, but honestly I really just don't know as many female friends as I should, or the ones that I have asked out simply were not interested back.  I've decided to start asking girls that I don't know very well out for tea or coffee so that we may get to know each other a little better, and that way I can really open my options and consider more people.  There are still certain people I know who I definitely am interested in, but am too nervous to say anything to them simply because when I see them I get the feeling that they are not interested, even before anything is ever said.  If there is a girl out there who is interested in me, I just wish they would at least hint me so that I can stop looking in the wrong directions.  I'm honestly getting tired of always being alone, even though I have always been more of a "lone wolf" and have gotten very accustomed to it.


Now for some positive news!  While searching some more (at the request of my composition professor) for the right short film to use for my film scoring demo, I found what I think is the most perfect video I could possibly have found on the internet!  It is called Lutins, and here it is:

http://vimeo.com/21548329 (you'll have to click the link because the video will not embed)

My professor Rob Kyr will see the video tomorrow, among two other videos, and we'll know if it's the one to use!  I'm very excited!

All in all, everything has been wonderful!