Dear mando-friends, worldwide,

While I am what one might call a "classical" composer (whatever that means ) I am happy to share with you my funnest yet, jolliest yet composition. It is called Mojita — a grammatically feminized version of the popular, Caribbean cocktail. Only two or three people around the world would fully understand the allusion... It is what I have called, for lack of a better term, a reggae rondo, true to both terms: it is a reggae, and it is a "classical" rondo, with the theme returning time and again, in a verse-refrain sequence.

This score is a duet, in equal terms, for mandolin and bass. The instrumentation is what led me to post this announcement here, where mando-bass-inclined folks may frequent the neighborhood. I hope all those who ever get to play it have a ball with it. And that, of course, is the intention: to have a ball, to enjoy, to communicate all the fun and joy that this piece is to the audience.

Mojita is now available to one and all, entirely gratis, upon request. If you want a copy of the score and parts (in the familiar, PDF-via-email fashion), please feel free to drop me a note via the Café's messenger, or simply via email. My address is the same user name as here, at earthlink, dot net. All I ask for "in return", so to speak, is that if you ever perform it, you please let me know. I always like to follow my babies' footsteps...

The piece is yours; you know where to find me. After that... rock the house!

Cheers to collaborating mandolinists and bassists, and to all,

Victor