Reviewing Orchestration

Now, after writing more music than I care to count, I'm entering a new venue: the University of Southern Maine. I'll be teaching orchestration and I can't wait to take apart my own thinking about the subject which has developed more through practical experience than through academic study. I've cracked my old Blatter orchestration text which has gotten me thinking about Richard Hoffman and Michael Daugherty, the latter of whom often compared good orchestration and use of instruments to good mixing in the studio. Now that I've done a lot of both, I'll be grabbing that analogy and running with it!