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Jeanine Tesori—Holding Center Stage
December 1 2018 / Conversations
By Frank J. Oteri
Every project that Jeanine Tesori has worked on—whether it's a musical, an opera, incidental music for a play, or a soundtrack for a motion picture or an animated film—has a storyline. She claims she needs one to get started. But the storylines to which she's been most attracted are about people who society has deemed not worthy of being protagonists which has been a hallmark of the five shows of hers thus far that have been produced on Broadway: Fun Home; Caroline, or Change; Violet; and even Thoroughly Modern Millie and Shrek The Musical.
What the Optics of New Music Say to Black Composers
November 14 2018 / Articles
By Anthony R. Green
The absence of music by black composers in concert programming and academic institutions tells them that they are not wanted, no matter how much success they gain. The new music...
Composers Collaborate!
December 5 2018 / Articles
By Don DiNicola
Instead of talking about how many hats we wear as a badge of pride, I want to ponder how much we lose when we choose to write, arrange, perform, and...

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New Music for Old Film
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Music Can be a Counterbalance to Hard Times
Sometimes music is a counterbalance to tragedy. And in times of personal grief, I also turn to composition.  It’s the role of the artist to dream beyond the borders of...
Setting the Scene with Sound: (Re)Scoring Silent Film
We all know that the soundtrack changes the way we experience a movie. Buster Keaton’s 1927 comedy "The General" is a popular choice for showings with live accompaniment, and here...
Music and a Sense of Place
A sense of place can be the impetus for a piece, motion can be the catalyst.  Sometimes a place can affect the music more indirectly. 
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It’s obvious that our physical world is in deep trouble.  Old and new technologies are out of control—polluting our air, water and soil, poisoning our health, heating up the climate...
Taking a Cue: Accompanying Early Film
Many cue sheets for silent film show notations where the performer swapped out a suggested piece with one they already knew or owned. Claire Hamack, an accompanist whose scores, photoplay...
Always In The Moment—Remembering Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)
Roy Hargrove (1969-2018) was always only in the moment, hard and sincerely. In that moment, he meant everything he did; he meant every word he said; he felt everything he...
Toward a Music of the Spheres
It’s August and I can finally turn my head to a collaboration with Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn for a concert in mid November—a piece for solo violin influenced by Bach’s...
New Music for a New Art Form: Photoplay Music
The advent of the moving picture brought about the development of an enormous amount of new music composed specifically to accompany film. There are hundreds of pieces in the Silent...
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TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY
Stephen T. Griebling

Born: Saturday, December 10, 1932 Akron, Ohio

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