Frank Mills’ Happy Song

Frank Mills’ “Happy Song” was the first organ arrangement that I ever wrote down, around the age of 9 years old! Writing arrangements was a requirement for the Yamaha Organ exams I completed, and I’m so glad that I had to arrange songs from an early age, as I soon…

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Carnival of the Animals Published

When I was 11 years old, I wrote a rather advanced arrangement of Saint-Saens’ “The Carnival of the Animals” to perform on the Yamaha Electone HX-1 at the 1989 Yamaha Electone Festival. It was my first arrangement for the HX-1, as in previous years I played the FX-20. The significantly…

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