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This is the Album of the Future

How are albums adapting and changing in the digital world? James Moore is looking for clues as to where the art form might be headed.

It’s not a goodbye, it’s a see you later

There was perhaps no more important a “yes” in my career than when I accepted Frank J. Oteri’s offer to come and work on this crazy thing called NewMusicBox 18...

Juliana Hall: Pulled Into The Poets’ World

Juliana Hall has given her almost completely undivided attention to composing art songs for over 30 years, and her love for poetry and the voice has only grown stronger.

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

Shaping the American Operatic Canon

It is essential for any composer who wants to write opera to have an extensive background as a dramatist, wordsmith, orchestrator, and musician. But currently, this expectation is also impractical,...

Finding Myself in an Alternate Reality, or 12 months on Sand Hill Road

When composer Josh Armenta took a job in Silicon Valley to pay the bills, he quickly felt completely disconnected from his field and craft. However, after opening his mind to...

2018 Ditson Conductor’s Award Honors Oliver Knussen

Established in 1945, the Ditson Conductor's Award honors conductors who have a distinguished record of performing and championing contemporary American music.

The Catalyst-Conductor: Conductors as Musical Leaders for the 21st Century

In bypassing institutional gatekeepers, conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya outlines how these conductors have brought relevance, vitality, and an expanding number of previously unrepresented voices into the field and argues that they...

Artist Financial Profile: loadbang

A discussion with Executive Director Andy Kozar

When your world falls apart, you learn to build a new one

What I didn’t realize was that I had become so distracted by following the rules across my whole life that I had lost sight of who I was, artistically and...

From Folk Song to the Outer Limits of Harmony—Remembering Ben Johnston (1926-2019)

Like so many American experimentalists, Ben Johnston (1926-2019) was stylistically multilingual. His conceptual achievement leaves Boulez and Stockhausen in the dust, but moment by moment the music can sound as...

Terrarium: A New Sphere for Growing Art

I am on a mission to bring us toward a place where the art and its communities are woven around and within each other… art is not separate. Such a...

A Few Things You Might Not Know About Vivian Perlis (1928-2019)

Most NewMusicBox readers probably already know that Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) and was the co-author of Aaron Copland's biography as well as an award-winning...

Playing in Time: Chronos, Kairos, Crossfades

In this post I want to talk about time: time in our musical relationships with others, and time in the creative process. I’ll start out with the Greek concepts of...

Life in Septuple Time: A Composer Opts In to a Different Sort of Social Media

I have not found a social media platform that fits what I need and what I believe others need, particularly as artists helping to build culture-sustaining communities. So in seeking...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Steven Lebetkin

Born: Thursday, August 18, 1955 Queens, New York

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