Fast forward to today, although working in other worlds, I’ve written music when I could. I consider my compositions as studies, not terribly ground-breaking, but important to myself. I enjoyed some amateur and partial performances:
- String Quartet in 5/4, 1979, 15 minutes. Performance: Prepared reading at Conference on Contemporary String Quartets by Women Composers, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA, 1981
- Reflections on the Prevailing Wind, Three Twelve-Tone Sketches for Recorder (or Flute) Quartet, 1981, 8 minutes. Performance: Never performed.
- Petaluma River Suite, Six Movements for Dance with Chamber Ensemble/Small Orchestra, 1982, 60 minutes. Performance: Two movements performed by Dominican College Orchestra at its “American Music Festival,” San Rafael, CA, 1984
- Mr. Grasshopper’s Pockets, a Children’s Operetta, 1983, 30-45 minutes. Performance: My Pooh Bear song performed by Winifred Baker Children’s Chorus, San Rafael, CA, approximately 1984
- Oyster Garden, a Tragic Opera in Four Acts, 1985, 2-1/2 hours. Performance: Prepared reading of excerpts under auspices of the Northbay Lyric Opera, Novato, CA, 1987
- Symphony No. 1 (for the Spotted Cow), for SATB Chorus and Orchestra, 1994, estimate 1 hour. Performance: Two movements performed by Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra at Dominican College, San Rafael, approximately 1994
- The Tulip, Piano Quintet with Soprano Voice, 2000, about 7 minutes. Performance: Never performed
I entered the business workforce as a public school music teacher for a year, then as a full time legal secretary until 2005. In 2005, I discovered HTML coding and website development, and the 2005 version of this website was my first website project. I re-entered the workforce as a paralegal in 2005, continued to develop a few websites, and in 2021, entered the copywriting world while still working as a a paralegal.
In 2021, when I overlooked renewing the CreativeMusicWorks.com domain name and lost the domain name to a Hong Kong speculator, I recreated these web pages as a WordPress site, on CreativeMusicWorks.net.
If my responsibilities would allow me the opportunity, the first thing I’d like to do would be to return to composing.
