I've spent the last few weeks slowly revising and expanding the Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble. I let several months pass since it's completion in April because 1) I can work on it with fresher eyes and ears and 2) I've been able to forget the mental drain from the 4.5 months of intensive work on the piece.
It's been fun going back and tweaking and fixing things and adding bits and pieces. But the tediousness has sometimes been a bit frustrating, especially when I realized I've spent more than an hour on one short passage. But, I just remind myself that it's for the benefit of the piece, that it's a nice learning process for me, and that most of the time I'm actually excited to do it.
