ScubaSteeeve

I know you went to sleep, but I hope you read this anyway. I'm a composer (about to get my DMA and everything), and I wrote a solo for piano that was very well-received and challenging. I premiered it at my master's recital, even paying a professional pianist hundreds of dollars to play it for me.

Then, to my horror, my school didn't even bother recording my recital. I also can't find any local pianists who'll even look at it, never mind get a recording or perform it. It's a little tricky in terms of rhythm, but certainly easier than a lot of the stuff I see graduate pianists doing.

I can provide a PDF of the score for you to see the kind of difficulty I'm talking about, but what should I expect to pay a skilled pianist to take it on for a recording? It's about ten minutes long across four movements.

I can find vocalists, brass players, woodwinds, and string players who will play my stuff without any complaints. In fact, I just got commissioned to write a bassoon solo. But there is a huge shortage of pianists with any free time AND the skills to play a tricky piece like this one.

Yes. I can play some fairly simple piano literature, but my primary instrument wasn't piano. A lot of composers today don't play piano very much, just enough to help them compose. (I think it's important to have some ability on it ID you want to be a composer, but I don't think a composer needs to be an advanced instrumentalist, either. John Williams certainly isn't.)

One of my ex-girlfriends had a breast that was significantly smaller than the other and was self-conscious about it, though I told her it didn't other me at all. I didn't realize until I saw your post just how seriously it can affect your self-esteem and body image.

My only question was going to be about whether you had the hand abnormalities or not, but looking below, it seems like you didn't have any of that, thankfully. I hope your recovery continues to go well!

No. He was asked who has lobbied him. Being endorsed doesn't mean he was asked for anything. If he's progressive, then chances are he already had similar viewpoints to the AFL-CIO. So, they didn't have to lobby him for shit.