High Spirits 2 is spirited, humorous, quirky and unpredictable.
As this new website takes shape I did ponder last week what I would have thought if I had stumbled upon it three year ago whilst I was still on the staff at the Sydney Conservatorium. I think the answer would have been total disbelief. It just was not on my radar that I would write three Children’s musicals let alone write so much music. My composition until that date was purely teaching studies and two liners for my Off to A Great Start Book.
But within this short space of time I have recorded a whole CD of my own pieces which amazed me almost as much as the fact that people seem to like them and other musicians want to play them. The set work for the clarinet section of the Australian National Band Championships was “Snakes Alive” — who would have thought it?