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Thanks for the feedback, will follow up on suggestions. Thanks for the info about timpani as well, nobody's ever told me any of that and I've had plenty of people look at my work before. Will keep that in mind in future! Have added more to piece, will post again when I've written a few minutes more, thanks again.

I do love the way you've emulated the shakuhachi, particularly with the glissandi in the strings. I also agree with the comment about bars 33-34 - I think this, while it does sound out of place, is also quite... I don't know, exciting. I think you can make a lot more out of that than you did. Of course, the five minute time constraint wouldn't have helped, with the recording, but yeah, anyway, that's my two cents worth. Veryyy nice :)

And apologies for not being more active around here, I definitely have meant to, but busy life gets in the way! Will make more of an effort :)

So a friend of mine set me the task to spend two solid hours every Monday composing - no getting discouraged by lack of inspiration and allowing myself to become distracted. So I've been working on an idea that I found buried in my computer from 2007. This is really the first thing I've written since 2007.I'm a weeny bit stuck but I'm enjoying the process and I would really like some criticisms/feedback/suggestions of what I have written thus far.Question: is it too simple, too tonal, too cliché, too boring?Any kind of feedback is very much welcome!(sorry about the messiness of the score, written-out trills etc, it is a work in progress after all). Unfinished Orchestral Work

Uh... not sure what you mean by Vienna... but this is the recording that the NZSO made, so it is 'real' in that it is being played by actual musicians. Is that what you meant? Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! I definitely agree with the whole not-sounding-Greek thing. At the time I had trouble with naming works and concepts around works - I would write a piece, and then try and come up with a name for it. As I had other ideas relating to this one, it became a "suite". The linear/repetition thing is also something that I have struggled with - I think it's because maybe I was too afraid to deviate from something that had already worked, so continued with the same thing, to the point where it becomes too much - I guess the possibilities are too overwhelming! But thanks :) It's nice to get all of this feedback, I'm already getting ideas for a new orchestral work, so it's really good to have these comments to work with.

Argh, no, I did not want that to create a thread, how come it did that?

I wrote this when I was 16, and the NZSO recorded the work as part of the Young Composer Awards in 2007.At the time, I loved film music, and this was what I tried to emulate. It sounds naive to me, now, and people have fed back that it sounds like "cowboy music", which just horrifies me, because that wasn't the effect that I was going for. It was part of a suite of three movements, each depicting an aspect of Greek literature, which I was studying at school at the time. This is the only movement that I actually fully completed - the other two remain unfinished Tales Of Greece: III - Mighty Odysseus