Welcome to the CMP Blog

Twice a month, I will publish a new blog post covering the following topics:

🎶Sneak peeks into the life of a traveling musician

🎶Inspiration for my latest arrangement for winds

🎶Celebrations of a wide variety of cultures

🎶Sharing more background information about Craig Music Publishers and how we got started

🎶Challenges arrangers face

Plus many other topics, and of course, more anecdotes, memories, and passions for music. See you in my next blog post!

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Blog Post 13: Mendelssohn’s Adagio-Allegro

Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to my blog. I hope you had a great week. In this week’s blog post, I will be discussing my inspiration for writing a clarinet quartet arrangement of the first movement “Adagio-Allegro” from Felix Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 8. Although Mendelssohn wrote this piece at only age 13, it already demonstrates his unique compositional style, blending Baroque and Classical influences.

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