Once again I submitted to the annual Song Of The Year songwriting competition, and once again I did not win first place in the Instrumental category. Somehow, I had this fantasy that I would blow away the judges with my "emotionally-charged" clarinet playing...
However, I may be doing slightly better than my Honorable Mention placement from last year. This time around, my submission "Summer And Snowy Walk" landed me a rating of Semi-Finalist
Kelly from administration wrote to tell me:
"Even though your material did not place as a Winner or Finalist, you still did incredibly well in the contest. You had an entry that received the Semi-Finalist placement. The "Semi-Finalist" placement is the highest placement next only to the one winner and four finalists from each category.
You can check out my submission at CD Baby by checking out the album that first featured it, the very first CD the band put out: Cram It Down, all the way back in 1993.
What a lot of people probably wouldn't know is that the original title of the composition was Tiny Song, but what happened was that I had also drawn a cartoon drawing titled "Summer And Snowy Walk", and shortly thereafter the song was re-titled to go along with the cartoon:
This, of course, was back in the happy days when I actually had TIME for art, before it was "work-work-work" and before my day job morphed into a rabid dog, chasing me day and night and forcing me to run until I am simply too exhausted to go any further...
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