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What Else Would I Do?
With the sad loss of Elliott Carter last week, I keep reflecting on my favorite aspect of his career: that he kept producing new music throughout his life. Instead of...
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Sounds Heard: Common Eider, King Eider—Sense of Place
It was hard not to reflect on Andy Doe's record industry analysis while sorting through CDs this week, particularly the suggestion that "if a record isn’t unique, it shouldn’t have...
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2013 Grammy Nominations
The Recording Academy has released the list of nominees for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. When the awards are presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10,...
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Scratch That: Chicago Unites, Beck Composes, and Dale Clevenger Hangs On
New York Times music writer Steve Smith reportedly “leaned on” his editors and got them to fly him out to Chicago this weekend, where he caught the (Re)New Amsterdam benefit...
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Signal to Noise
I promised myself I wouldn’t take the bait dangled by Dan Asia’s screed against John Cage, but it’s turning out to be hard to resist. So instead I’ll try to...
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The Tom Johnson Paradox
Last Friday, composer Tom Johnson kicked off a week-long Los Angeles residency with a concert and exhibition opening at Art Share in collaboration with the wulf. Johnson is generally known...
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When Stage Presence Happens
I want to raise another topic that is relevant to the good performance/bad performance discussion we've been having, prompted by the article "A Great Live Music Performance Requires More Than...
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MAP Fund Awards $1.4M to Support 41 Live Performance Projects
2013 MAP Fund Awardee Bang On A Can's roving 12-player Asphalt Orchestra The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and...
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Classical Pantomime
Following up on last week, I want to talk a little bit more about musical authenticity and how notions of what’s authentic in music have changed in recent years. For...
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Cynthia Lee Wong Selected as Second New Voices Composer
... premieres by the San Francisco Symphony during the 2014–15...
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Andrew Norman Joins Opera Philadelphia as Third Composer in Residence
Andrew Norman Opera Philadelphia, in collaboration with Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group in New York, has announced that composer Andrew Norman has been selected as its...
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Common Ground
Over the past year and a half, I've been chairing my institution's University Senate. In addition to being able to help enact change at a high level there, it also...
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To Jury or Not to Jury
For those of us who mark our days according to an academic calendar, activity is winding down--for a few weeks, at least. However, the end-of-term stresses that plague most subject...
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Sounds Heard: The Quiet Ones
Considering the volume of pitches and announcements from various and sundry PR organizations I receive every week, I can't help but wonder about all of the things happening in our...
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Fireworks
It's July and we're again celebrating that quintessential and sometimes amorphous sense of American independence. And another perennial activity that we always need to be doing in the music world...