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Adventures in Orchestra, Part 2: Unlikely Collaborators
More and more frequently, orchestras and other ensembles of all sizes and shapes are embracing thematic programming that in some way strives to forge a connection with communities beyond the...
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The First Time
As everyone in the concert music community has been gearing up for the centennial of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, I noticed that WQXR-FM in New York City recently...
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Submission, Discomfort, and Transcendence
Before audience members enter the venue where The Blind is performed, they must put on a blindfold after which they are personally escorted one by one into...
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On the Purpose of Art in 700 Words or Less
Moving to a new town has triggered something inside of me that makes me question everything I do. In trying to analyze the elements of music—Where does it take place?...
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Ban The Piano! A 21st-Century Composition Manifesto
Photograph by Jean-Stéphane Vachon As a Chinese-American composer who writes from the margins, I know that I must abolish the central love...
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Whose Philharmonic Is It?
Leave it to this orchestra. Whatever it does, the New York Philharmonic seems to garner attention. Of course it's hardly surprising, considering that the local press amounts to...
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Introducing Dark in the Song (A Bassoon Supergroup)
This week and next, the bassoon quintet Dark in the Song will be presenting their premiere concerts, including a new piece of mine, 21 Miles to Coolville, for four bassoons...
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Improvising a Moment
I don’t believe that music, as it exists in our world today, is a language in the true sense of the word—that it’s capable of communicating any part of our...
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Seven League Boots
There aren't as many generalizations to make about new music in Boston as one might think—even the old epithet of "academic" starts to fray when you realize that some of...
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Soundspace Takes an Arts Audience Exploring
You know how you tend to learn new things about your town when friends come to visit? This might involve a visit to that restaurant you never got around to...
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Seldoms in Space
[caption id="attachment_265877" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Marc Riordan (piano), Jeff Kimmel (bass clarinet), and Lilianna Zofia Wosko (cello)"] Dance is a medium that inherently deals with space—the spatial relationships between dancers and the...
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A Very Long Walk: Time, Distance, and Creativity on the PCT
Sonora Pass When I initially started walking the Pacific Crest Trail as a mobile residency, my usual daily concerns--tea, the garden, my cat--were immediately swept away, and...
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The Opposite of Brain Candy—Decoding Black MIDI
Niche music genres are nothing new. They existed before hipsters, before Stravinsky, and before Mozart. However, in the last two decades there has been a blossoming of niche music genres,...
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Curation is Not a Form of Marketing
Since my first post in this series last week, I’ve been happily engaged in a number of discussions about the topic of curation and its role and/or use in new...
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Whither Los Angeles: The Émigrés
For this post on new music in Los Angeles, I’d like to briefly touch on the experiences of European émigré composers in the '30s and '40s. As in other parts...