Scores available for purchase!

I'm excited to announce a new set of pieces that are now available for purchase at SMP Press! This batch is focused on string pieces:

  • Letters from the War, for beginning intermediate string orchestra (written for the Northern Guilford Middle School orchestra);

score – parts – score & parts

  • Sin Tregua, for string quartet (written at Harvard in response to the drug war in Mexico);

score – parts – score & parts

score – parts coming very soon!

 

Look for the next batch of scores focusing on piano music soon!

Anthemology: Mexico

Happy 204th birthday Mexico!  In celebration of the occasion, I'm introducing a new series: Anthemology.  This series will focus on the roots of and relationships between national anthems the world over, letting us learn about a nation's psyche by the symbols it chooses for itself.

Today we look at Mexico's national anthem, a belligerent, patriotic march written by a love poet and a Spaniard.

After a national lyric-writing contest was announced in 1853, the romantic poet Francisco González Bocanegra was forced to enter by his then-fiancée Guadalupe del Pino. With her parents' help...

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