I'm really sad that it looks like this won't reach its goal. Do you have any backup plans in case that does happen? Perhaps a Time Egg up your sleeve to change FATE?
"Never give up! Never surrender!"
Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer, but I guess I'm not overly surprised. I'm an unknown composer coming out of nowhere trying to fund a high profile project. I had hoped that it would catch on and we could do it, but it doesn't seem like that was in the cards. That being said, 20K and 450 backers is nothing to scoff at!
I'm working on Plan B right now. It looks like most people want me to relaunch the campaign, so I'm thinking about relaunching with a lower funding goal of around $10k - $15k to have the MIDI mastered. We'll then set some stretch goals for live recordings with different sized orchestras and go from there!
I still think this can happen, but even if we don't meet the stretch goals we'll at least have some good mock-ups we can release. In the meantime I'm going to start writing for my next tribute project.