While we lost connection to the internet for nearly a week, I used the time to finish three string quartet arrangements of Carole King songs. I've been meaning to finish them for some time. They are all from the album Tapestry (1971)

• Tapestry (the title track)
• Will you [still] love me tomorrow
• So far away
  

They are all available from SheetMusicPlus, along with You've got a friend (the first Carole King song I arranged) and lots of other stuff.

Fall, Leaves, Fall

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

The Future Blend Project has chosen one of my pieces for a concert in Warwick in January. It is called Koto, and it's for solo harp. The great thing about this project is that I get to work with the harpist Camilla Pay to develop the piece before the concert. I am looking forward to that.
Details of the concert are: 5:30 6th January 2018 at Lord Leycester Hospital, 60 High Street, Warwick. Tickets will be available in November 2017.
The Future Blend Project is on Facebook.

The London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra is playing my piece Noah on the 30th September at St George the Martyr in Borough High Street. This is another work inspired by Prières dans l'arche by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold. The LCCO played the piece in a workshop earlier in the year, and they were very good. I am looking forward to the concert!

The Century College Concert Band is playing Rosetta Fanfare at the 2017 BandWidth Music Festival in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. It will be at the Landmark Center in Saint Paul on Sunday 30 April 2017.
As I was writing a short, thirty-second fanfare for trumpet and piano, the Rosetta space probe launched by the European Space Agency was approaching comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Later in 2016, as I expanded that short fanfare as a work for wind band, the Rosetta mission came to an end when the space probe was crashed into the comet. It seemed appropriate to name the new work Rosetta Fanfare.

I have at last put the score and parts of the Concerto semplice by Mozart (and Grieg and me) on Sheet Music Plus. You can hear excerpts on Sheet Music Plus, and I have updated the sound flies on my earlier post to correspond with the published score.

As I said before, we should probably not be too concerned for Mozart, as he 'did arrangement' to several works by Bach and Handel. Let's hope Grieg would not be upset by the silly picture opposite!

... another arrangement - is it Mozart or is it Grieg? I was listening to the radio and heard Mozart's piano sonata in C (Sonata facile or Sonata semplice, No 16) with the second piano part written by Grieg. The result is not exactly Mozart, but interesting. I thought that if I arranged Grieg's second piano for orchestra, that would make a new piano concerto by Mozart (sort of).
As a student Grieg listened to a lot of Mozart’s music, and spent the winter of 1876/7 arranging four of Mozart’s nineteen piano sonatas for two pianos by adding his own, newly composed second piano part. He didn't change the original Mozart sonatas, he just added to them.
When I get round to it, I will publish the score, but you can hear rough mock-ups of the Concerto semplice by clicking on the pictures below.