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But What I Really Want To Do Is Direct!

But What I Really Want To Do Is Direct!

Pop artists create video content designed to go viral and to sell albums, but musicians with far smaller budgets than mega-stars are now making videos as well. Looking for ways to get your own work filmed and distributed? Misha Penton is here with some DIY tips to help you get started.

Removing Barriers to New Music

Removing Barriers to New Music

How can we create a new music concert experience that is more welcoming, more engaging, and more inclusive?

Misfits and Geniuses

Misfits and Geniuses

My course “Misfits and Geniuses” was a way feature contemporary music in a compelling music appreciation-style class. I started with the attractive idea of creative rebels who bucked traditional boundaries...

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Having Conversations About Diversity

Having Conversations About Diversity

Looking at the shortage of diversity in virtually every corner of the industry, it’s clear that classical music needs to discuss solutions more often, with more people of different perspectives....

Uncomfortably Serious and Disarmingly Fun: The Irreplaceable Matt Marks

Uncomfortably Serious and Disarmingly Fun: The Irreplaceable Matt Marks

From his work as a founding member of Alarm Will Sound, to his heartfelt and hilarious compositions, to his organizational efforts with New Music Gathering, to his sardonically prolific Twitter...

Beauty Is Revolution

Beauty Is Revolution

To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence). Beauty is hard to make and the making is painful. You have to...

Nine Composers Receive 2018 BMI Student Composer Awards

Nine Composers Receive 2018 BMI Student Composer Awards

Nine composers have received 2018 BMI Student Composer Awards plus there was one additional honorable mention.

Tragedy and Inspiration

Tragedy and Inspiration

A course I've named “Tragedy and Inspiration” is my solution to drawing college students in to a challenging but powerful body of music. The course couples tragic events from modern...

Making Connections: Helping Presenters Market Your Music

Making Connections: Helping Presenters Market Your Music

It’s important to lean in—not step back—when you have a marketing team promoting a concert (or CD release, creative project, etc.) with your work on it. When you equip people...

Notes from Underground: Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony

Notes from Underground: Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony

Ivan Wyschnegradsky's 1932 Manual of Quarter-Tone Harmony rewrites the past for the future. But the 24-note equal-tempered octave is not an end, but a beginning.

New Approaches to Music Appreciation

New Approaches to Music Appreciation

I hold a core belief that art is relational, as we share unique and poetic visions about the human experience. I am filled with joy as a young composer discovers...

An Introvert’s Guide to the New Music Gathering (and Other Networking Events)

An Introvert’s Guide to the New Music Gathering (and Other Networking Events)

The reality about the New Music Gathering (and all conferences, really) is that we can’t space the doses of people out. Conference organizers, especially the NMG organizers, design the event...

Hey Jealousy: Social Media’s Envy Effect

Hey Jealousy: Social Media’s Envy Effect

Jealousy within an ensemble is something people are generally uncomfortable admitting to or talking about, and social media can amplify this feeling even among the best of friends and colleagues....

Beth Anderson—Just Dropping In

Beth Anderson—Just Dropping In

Beth Anderson has embraced serendipity and followed it both in her life and in her music. In this sprawling conversation, Anderson tells us about some major early epiphanies—as well as...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

David Torn

Born: Tuesday, May 26, 1953

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