Wow. What a crazy first few months at my new job. I kind of expected things to be busy, but the pace is just incredible ... incredible in a good way. The students I am now teaching are so motivated and so capable that I find myself running to catch up with them most of the time. We have done so much composition in the last few weeks it's staggering. I checked my syllabus last night and found out we've already covered three quarters of it since September. When I give the students something to do, they accomplish it in half the time I expect, and twice as well as I expect. One student just knocked off a 10-minute horn concerto in his spare time, and it's a quite remarkable piece of music. This gives me lots of opportunity to explore new ventures - time to drift into uncharted waters. After all, there's still about two thirds of the school year left.
