Deferred gratification is still gratifying: A project started in 2019 is now on two Billboard Top 10 lists!! I’ve been Stewart Copeland’s orchestrator and copyist since 2010. In 2019 we prepped a live tour of Police songs with full orchestra, replacing Sting’s voice with three women and replacing Andy with the orchestra. Stewart would still play drums. Covid canceled the tour, so we fiddled with it for another year just because we could. The live shows began in late 2021 and I think we’re up to about 30 performances of it now in the US and Europe. The album was finally released this June, and now as of July 8 it’s #2 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Albums chart and #3 on the Classical Albums chart. The Police is Stewart’s legacy, so I almost purely a copyist for this show and had little creative musical input. The 400-page score is massive though, and I’m still proud of my role in it. Many congrats Stewart!