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Summers In The Choral World
Ed. Note: We are very happy to welcome Jenny Clarke to our group of bloggers! She will be sharing her experiences and insight into the world of choral music with...
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Meet The Composer Announces Awards in 3 Core Programs
Meet The Composer has announced the projects and awardees for three of its core programs: Commissioning Music/USA, the Cary New Music Performance Fund, and Van Lier Fellowships. This year, MTC...
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Some Thoughts on Self-Promotion
Last week, I found myself participating in a Twitter discussion (now there's a phrase that I never thought I'd type) on the merits of self-publishing vs. working with a legacy...
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Elitism and Its Discontents
Dedicated to the memory of Charles Hamm (April 21, 1925-October 13, 2011) [caption id="attachment_265566" align="alignright" width="300" caption="These discs behind me in my new office, which represent only a small fraction of...
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Lazarus Music
I've had several pieces that have seemed to me to be purely unlucky. There was the quintet that lay dormant for three years before receiving its premiere, the duo that's...
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A Question of Motivation
Although I've read Rob Deemer's two perceptive posts (1, 2) on amateur composition, I haven't followed the lengthy conversation the first one prompted. Please don't take the following, then, as...
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A Learned Instinct
My wife was telling me about bumping into two of our more musical friends who were talking about an improvising pianist who didn’t own a piano. She described how one...
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Turning Ideas Into Reality
When I talk to non-composer colleagues about what I and other composers do, the conversation tends to end up with them mentioning how hard it must be to come up...
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Defining Corey Dargel
Ordinarily I write my posts on Friday mornings, but this week's was written almost a full week ago. This anomalous timeline owes directly to a concert I attended that evening...
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Amazingly Impractical
[caption id="attachment_265640" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sometimes a piece of music can feel like as big a challenge as jumping off the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, Norway (a pretty frightening proposition)"] Rob...
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Sounds Heard: itsnotyouitsme—Everybody’s Pain Is Magnificent
Caleb Burhans and Grey McMurray are two of the busiest and most accomplished musicians working in New York’s emerging experimental/indie community, equally at home in the role of composer, songwriter,...
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Finding Headspace
Sometimes it takes a while to take a hint. One of the vestiges that I have clung to from my pre-teaching days is the idea that I can compose at any...
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The Addictive Roller Coaster Ride (The 2011-2012 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Blog, Day 3)
Thursday was the first day of rehearsals with the orchestra. This is something I had been anticipating with great excitement! Right before rehearsal began, we had another opportunity...
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Developing an Act
In speaking with other composers, there are always so many questions I’d like to ask them about their music and how they went about putting it together: What were you...
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Digitization
As I mentioned last week in this space, over the winter holidays I experienced a period of relatively severe burnout that left me unable to complete any task requiring more...