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Help Me Help You: What Orchestra Managements Need from the New Music Community

There are a great number of interlocking gears in motion behind every orchestral programming decision. Understanding this can help all of us in the new music community be constructive, rather than reactive, advocates for the repertoire we want to hear.

Bun-Ching Lam: Home is Where You Park Your Suitcase

Born in Macau, educated in Hong Kong and California, and now dividing her time between Paris and Upstate New York, Bun-Ching Lam creates music that is shaped by her multicultural...

The Secret Lives Of Composers Who Work In The Trades

The only way you fail at art is if you stop doing it. There's no reason a composer can't be a plumber or an electrician instead of a teacher. All...

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

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...

Musical Experiences in Daily Life

Looking at life through a musical lens, I see many correspondences that are perhaps easier to see in a city like New York, where the counterpoint of life is omnipresent.

A New Music Halloween Playlist Curated By Vanessa Ague

Our friend and colleague Vanessa Ague agreed to curate a Halloween-themed playlist with works that she sourced from across the New Music USA platform. She found some great tracks!

The Irresistible Soundtrack to Terror

Originally recorded for Counterstream Radio in 2008, Diamanda Galás presents selections from "The Exorcist" (1973), "Squirm" (1976), "The Alligator People" (1959), "The Mechanic" (1972), "Blood of Dracula" (1957), "Sisters" (1973),...

Six Great Film Composers Tell Their Own Stories in Music for Solo Piano

Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano was a collaboration that was bound to happen one day given my years of living in Los Angeles and working with composers.

Determining a Different Outcome

Paul Elwood confesses that he used to become jealous, mildly enraged, or depressed by the accomplishments of others until he realized how pointless it was to hold his own creative...

Reclimbing the Heaven Ladder

The idea for playing some joint recitals with Terry Riley was conceived in January 2017 when I met up with him at one of his solo concerts at Los Angeles’...

Show Up, Stay Awake, and Tell the Truth

This week, Paul Elwood shares his essential composition tips.

My Search for Ben Weber

Ben Weber was an enigma. He was a twelve tone composer whose lushly harmonic music is often described as tonal. He was a deeply serious, intellectual artist in the metaphysical...

Sound, Architecture II: Fog, Ruins, and Ellington

Creating sound for a large outdoor installation had been a dream of Neil Leonard's for years. But when the opportunity finally arrived, it was filled with a list of elements...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

John Plant

Born: Tuesday, November 13, 1945 Yonkers, New York, USA

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