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Surfing on a Constantly Shifting Bed of Earthquaking Sand Dunes
Last week, I talked about going to a school that changed my life. The thing is, you don’t get to just change one part of your life at once. That’s...
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Speak Now: Music of the Travel Ban
The Trump Travel Ban unceremoniously strips citizens from the countries on its list of their humanity, essentializing them as stigmatized non-Americans and even actively anti-American. Now on its third iteration,...
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A Lot of Energy—Remembering Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)
I met Cecil Taylor in 1958 through Ted Curson, the trumpet player from Philadelphia. It was at a rehearsal in Brooklyn that I was doing with another pianist, one of...
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Live Streaming 103: DIY Live Stream Tech
... have never let me down. One of them is almost 15...
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Composing Xenharmonic Music
... Keystation–in this case, for a 15-note tuning which...
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Six Great Film Composers Tell Their Own Stories in Music for Solo Piano
When planning a recital, or a recording for that matter, it’s important to me to commingle works by composers who have a reason for being together, who share a connecting...
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A Musical Oasis in an Icefield
In January of 2016, I boarded a plane from my home base in New York City and touched down a few hours later in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Though I was...
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Widening Inclusion & Visibility
.... Out of the 15 annual winners, one in 2018 and four...
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At the Intersection of Digital Audible Histories and Experimental Music Practice
..., “Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories” (January 15 – March...
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Writing for “The Chorus”: Text, Dynamics, and Other Occupational Hazards
As a composer-conductor who works primarily with new choral music, I encounter over 500 freshly minted new works for chorus each year. Sometimes, I am considering newly published works for...
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“Splendid Sonority and Vivid Expressiveness”: The Theremin before Sci-Fi
Most people who haven’t heard of the theremin have heard it, usually in old science fiction movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still (or spoofs like Mars Attacks). The...
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Escaping the Mold of Oriental Fantasy
Introduction “How are you going to become a composer?” My uncle said angrily, “No Lebanese person has done it. Why you?” I was sitting in the baranda of my teta’s (grandmother’s) home...
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Ethical Artistry: Are we really asking ourselves these tough questions?
A little background: For more than two years, I worked to co-curate the Intricate Machines project with composer Phil Taylor and the Aizuri Quartet. Along the way, we had many...
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What You Get and What You Give: Permission and Compensation for Setting a Text
...-15% of the sale/rental price is reasonable. Some...
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Closing the Music Gender Gap
Representation of gender minorities is necessary to achieving a field that fully reflects our values at New Music USA. Our organization is serious about our commitment to gender equity in...