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A Fine Mess: An Emerging Opera Composer vs. the American New Opera Machine
... and afterword. The original version came to 15... presented the original 15-minute version on a program that...
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Speak Now: D.C. Dispatch—Arts in the Time of Trump
Almost four years ago my family moved to Washington, D.C. This city is everything you think it is, and yet it’s not. Like any big metro area, Washington is made...
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Thinking About Language in a Post-Genre Context
I spent this summer immersed in the music of Roomful of Teeth, a “vocal band” consisting of eight singers with a commitment to exploring the expressive potential of the human...
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Notes from the Custerdome: A Jazz Appreciation of Steely Dan
“We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz." - Walter Becker in 1974 (Rolling Stone) The...
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Stepping Forward at the Midwest Clinic
Every year during the week before Christmas, thousands of music educators, student musicians, and industry professionals gather in Chicago to discuss the latest trends and techniques in music education, listen...
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Notes on Belief, Creation, and the Un-serious. Seriously.
Writing seems to come from this place: a speaking/thinking person, believing so clearly that they know something definitive about a subject, breathes their loud, strange knowledge onto the written page....
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Decolonizing Our Music
Ed. Note: The essay below was presented, in a slightly different form, as the final keynote address at the “Decolonizing Music” conference presented by the Music Council of the Three...
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Speak Now: Turning Around, Turning Away, and Turning Over
“...when love stirs it asks for nothing—but a world made safe for truth, for beauty, for this tense blooming.” — from Megan Levad’s "Volta" We were generously gifted a bottle...
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Rebekah West
..., has initiated 15 concerts in 2015 and garnered a...
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From Avid Fan to Media Fellow
In the music world, being a fan isn’t a bad gig. Unlike musicians, you can book yourself, so to speak, at any venue you want. You don’t have to go...
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PRESS RELEASE: Berkeley Symphony opens 2018-19 Season on October 4, featuring Ming Luke, Benjamin Beilman, and Anna Clyne
... Symphony Orchestra from 2010-15. She also recently served... priced at $15 to $96 and are available at ...
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Sound, Architecture II: Fog, Ruins, and Ellington
My last post, "Sound, Architecture, and Necromancy," shared thoughts about recording at ancient sites in Greece and Italy. This post examines the development of Lavender Ruins, a four-channel sound composition...
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Tragedy and Inspiration
A course I've named “Tragedy and Inspiration” is my solution to drawing college students in to a challenging but powerful body of music. The course couples tragic events from modern...
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How We Pick Rep and Keep Surprising Our Audiences
How does my string quintet Sybarite5 pick the music we play? People ask me this all the time. First of all, it's important to know a little about how we program and...
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Misfits and Geniuses
The success of my course “Tragedy and Inspiration” spurred me to think of other meaningful ways to group contemporary music in a compelling music appreciation-style class. “Misfits and Geniuses” became...