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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 in my mind, I didn’t have a choice. I couldn’t imagine being the only one who knew what this all sounded like.”

Do you need a doctorate in composition?

There is value in attending a graduate program in composition, but it is not a panacea for career advancement and future job security. It is wise to consider what one...

Hannibal Lokumbe: Always Go With the Feeling

Our recent talk with composer/trumpeter/raconteur/poet/community activist/force of nature Hannibal Lokumbe was a 45-minute roller coaster ride that was part testimonial, part reminiscence, part philosophical manifesto, and part performance art, but...

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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 McBlane and I, more a cantankerous conversation we would have with someone in...

This year's Classical:NEXT opening concert, Hear It New!, highlights the breadth of National Sawdust’s work with composers, performers, filmmakers and designers, demonstrating the potential for true collaboration to create boundary-pushing...

The Impossible Dream: Scoring My First Documentary

As she explored different worlds of music, Danielle Ferrari found herself becoming more and more fascinated by soundtracks—how music has the power to transform stories and make characters feel larger...

Ellen Reid Wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize

p r i s m, an opera by Ellen Reid, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music. The annually awarded $15,000 prize is for a distinguished musical composition by...

Opening Concepts—The Themes That Shape Each Year’s Edition of Classical:NEXT

After raising my glass to the visitors at the welcome reception, I’ll already be looking forward to the first sounds of our opening concert. You can sense the hunger of...

A Newly Endowed Residency Program for Underrepresented Composers

Why are the seventy northeastern Ohio high-schoolers in this room so psyched to be playing music nobody’s ever played before? The short answer: because of Arlene and Larry Dunn, whose...

Teamwork in the Conservatory: In the Game of Music, We Can All Win

Creative artists come from different backgrounds with varying life experiences that contribute to our own unique skill sets. Rather than competing against each other, we can utilize our individual knowledge...

What kind of music do you write?

What kind of music do you write? Composers get this question all the time, and the answer can often be quite complicated. However, the language that they ultimately use to...

Seeking to Facilitate the “New Normal”

I'm sitting on a train en route to the Czech Republic just after treading numerous, long-haul carbon footprints on musical discovery trips between my Berlin home and Miami, New York...

2019 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Awards Announced

ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams today announced the recipients of the 2019 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.

I Came Here With Nothing: 21st-Century Paths in Music Education

Danielle Ferrari was a very lost graphic design major when she was accepted into the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s groundbreaking Technology and Applied Composition program. But she found an...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Bruce Saylor

Born: Wednesday, April 24, 1946 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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