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Artist Financial Profile: Dr. Lisa Neher, Composer & Performer

Adam Schumaker is back with another case study of a musician’s income—the next small chapter in an evolving theoretical Guide to Musician Finances. This time he speaks with Lisa Neher, a composer and performer, about the money taboo, the musician’s eternal hustle, realistically “making it,” adjunct teaching, and the ins and outs of working with your PRO.

How to Exist: 20 Years of NewMusicBox

We can’t quite believe it, but NewMusicBox turns 20 years old today! Tim Rutherford-Johnson is helping us kick-off our celebrations with a special feature looking at how things have changed—and...

Jack of All Trades or Master of Them All? Cross-Genre Creative Gambling

In the earliest days of her career, Danielle Eva Schwob was told to specialize. She never did.

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

When Aaron Irwin began studying music, a clear line was drawn between jazz and classical. Yet today, they are meeting on an ever-widening aesthetic middle ground. Irwin explores the work...

Ethical Artistry: Changing our Approach & Evaluating our Efforts

Many of us care about ethical artistry, but how do we measure our efforts? And how do we balance competing demands? This week, Dan Temkin digs into some general tenets...

Ethical Artistry: Falling Short—Logistics, Programming, and the Moral Complexity of Well-Intentioned Decisions

As a musical community, we strive to promote positive virtues in our work, yet clearly problems persist. So why do we fall short? Dan Temkin is back this week to...

Do it right or do it right now?

In a creative project, the quest for quality development and preparation eventually meets the question of when exactly to pull the trigger. Danielle Schwob shares her experiences navigating that challenging...

Teaching the Music of Now: A Mission, a Project, and a Conference

A survey course can easily convey the impression that “great” music is a finite resource generated by a handful of genius composers. When students become researchers, however, the picture changes.

Ethical Artistry: Are we really asking ourselves these tough questions?

Why are we doing this? This is one of the toughest and most deceptively simple artistic questions we face, and one easy to run from when planning a new project....

New Music USA appoints Vanessa Reed as President and CEO

An experienced, passionate, and transformational music professional, Ms. Reed comes to New Music USA after serving the United Kingdom’s PRS Foundation as chief executive for the past 11 years.

Listening to and Learning From Each Other

It appears from where I’m sitting (which is often in airplanes) that the world bubbles and froths with swirling, ever-shifting configurations of populations, each grappling with short and long-term political,...

The Importance of Women Role Models in This Industry

Having amazing female mentors and role models was and still is crucial to my growth as an artist. Meeting these women has significantly altered my perspective on my own reality:...

In Search of Robert Palmer

Pianist Adam Tendler spent more than a decade researching the life and work of Robert Palmer and made an album of his music "when no one asked for it. But...

Contrarian Spirit—Remembering Randy Nordschow (1969-2019)

From the moment composer and bon vivant Randy Nordschow started talking to NewMusicBox’s then associate editor Amanda MacBlane and I, more a cantankerous conversation we would have with someone in...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Bob Dylan

Born: Saturday, May 24, 1941 Duluth, Minnesota | NewMusicbox article

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