moonrise in spring lake park

Holy crap it's been way too long since I posted anything. My compositional moniker slows down with the end of the school year/concert season so it's no surprise. The summer travel season should provide some decent pictures and I'll be keeping banker's hours through the heat writing We, The Boys so I'll have some good stuff to blog about.

I went to a great concert last week at Spring Lake Park High School to hear their band play Moonrise. The concert highlighted music by living composers so there was some great work by the gentlemen of BCM International (Jim Bonney's TranZendental Danse of Joi was amazing) along with a showing of Minnesota composers who were all in attendance. The 3 of us missed the opportunity to take the requisite group photo but Aaron Perrine's Inner Sanctum and Beth Varela's Thank You (commissioned by the band boosters) were great and humbling at the same time. Directors Brian Lukkasson and Nora Tycast have an amazing program.

Afterwards it was homegrown brews and a concert decompress at Herkimer's Pub and Brewery in Uptown.