Sunday, June 28, 2009

Moving & Moving On...

The Marimba (mis)Adventures blog has moved to a new address. In fact, my entire website has undergone a bit of a face lift, featuring improved organization and navigation, newly added compositions, and an integrated blog. One of my awesome friends designs websites for her livelihood and turned me on to Squarespace as a place I might consider creating and hosting my site. I love new & shiny things so I took the bait and tried it out. Surprisingly, I feel as if I have even more creative control than I ever did creating my site in Dreamweaver. It has exponentially decreased the amount of time I spend dealing with code which is good for my sanity.

Anyway...

Please access my blog from now on using the following address:

http://www.nathandaughtrey.com/blog/

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mission Accomplished?

I have been dropping not-so-subtle hints all over the place (emails, Facebook, Twitter ... you know, all the usual suspects) about my 365 project coming to a close. I knew it was an extremely ambitious project when I started at the first of the year (don't we all get overzealous about our New Year's resolutions?), but I wholeheartedly believed I could make it happen. Things I did not factor in were sickness, business trips and other composition projects turning this labor of love into a chore. I am fairly certain that this is the opposite of what was intended for the project.

So as not to feel like too much a failure, I ask myself if I accomplished the essence of the mission I set forth. Yes indeed. I did not reach 364 variations, but I did memorialize my mother every day for 74 days and now I have this collection of little variations I can return to whenever I like. I will not be composing any new variations, but I am planning a live performances of select variations reworked for piano 4-hands this summer, so stay tuned.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Remembrance: Variation 73 (74/365)

Description of the 365 Project

Let There Be Peace on Earth, Variation 73
arranged by Nathan Daughtrey



Original words & music by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson
Copyright © 1955, Renewed 1983, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
This arrangement Copyright © 2009, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by Permission.


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Remembrance: Variation 72 (73/365)

Description of the 365 Project

Let There Be Peace on Earth, Variation 72
arranged by Nathan Daughtrey



Original words & music by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson
Copyright © 1955, Renewed 1983, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
This arrangement Copyright © 2009, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by Permission.


**If you are viewing this entry using a feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader, you are likely unable to view the music player that houses the theme or variation. Please view at the original blog address (http://marimbamisadventures.blogspot.com).

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Remembrance: Variation 71 (72/365)

Description of the 365 Project

Let There Be Peace on Earth, Variation 71
arranged by Nathan Daughtrey



Original words & music by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson
Copyright © 1955, Renewed 1983, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
This arrangement Copyright © 2009, by Jan-Lee Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by Permission.


**If you are viewing this entry using a feed reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader, you are likely unable to view the music player that houses the theme or variation. Please view at the original blog address (http://marimbamisadventures.blogspot.com).