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The Internet is a Strange Place for Music

The internet is a strange place for music. The scrubber bar in digital media players gives people a particular control over time, making it markedly different from any live circumstance. Composer Brandon Lincoln Snyder explores how this shift transforms our listening experience.

Jeffrey Mumford—Creating a Different World

Jeffrey Mumford started off pursuing a career in the visual arts before music took over his imagination, but his lifelong obsession with clouds translated over from painting into musical composition.

Brilliant, Funny, and Fueled by Passion—Remembering Dominick Argento (1927-2019)

Dominick Argento’s name was never on the programs at Big Reggie’s Danceland, but at the time it seemed that in the season of every other major performing arts organization, there...

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The Internet is Great, We’re Just Not Using it Right

Interacting online is not inherently poisonous, and online interactions are no less meaningful than talking face to face. Different, yes, but just as valuable. If we experience problems relating to...

Playing My Hand: How I Learned to Trust My Composition Teacher

"There I was, age 38, in the second year of my master’s degree, finding out for the first time what it was like to have weekly lessons with a supportive,...

Let’s Grow Art Organically in Small Batches

As a composer of contemporary concert music, I feel out of touch with that core, person-to-person interaction. I write to fulfill commissions, but often I am still not quite sure...

Yiddish Classical Music in America

Motivated by a mixture of philosemitic encouragement to explore their Jewish identity, as well as antisemitic discouragement that kept them from feeling fully Russian, Jewish students of the St. Petersburg...

Playing the Changes: The Transition from Professor to Student (My First Year as a Composition Major)

“I could never go back to school after teaching,” said many wonderful professors who used to be my colleagues. So why did I do it?

New Music USA Announces 114 Project Grants Totaling $529,420

Totaling $529,420 in funding, this year's grants support new American music projects in 27 states. The 114 awarded projects include a wide range of activities and events involving new music...

It’s Time to Let Classical Music Die

There comes a point in some abusive relationships where the victim wakes up out of their Stockholm syndrome and learns that they need to plan an escape. My fellow musicians...

Pondering New Digital Distribution Models and the Paul Revere Awards for Graphic Excellence—MPA 2019

The 2019 meeting of the Music Publishers Association, which took place last week in New York City, was a combination of reminiscences of the past and planning for the future,...

An Unassuming Musical Polymath with Great Curiosity and Knowledge—Remembering André Previn (1929-2019)

André Previn died before completing his final commission and, since his death, I’ve been absorbed in realizing it for the premiere at Tanglewood on August 3 of this year. The...

I’m Learning Middle Eastern Music the Wrong Way

If it weren’t for colonization, I would be studying my own culture’s music. And would probably have more success as an artist. So I took my Bachelors of Music degree...

Programming for Justice

The disparity in representation within new music is a longstanding and well-documented problem. We know this. What then holds us back? Why does disparity in representation remain such a problem?

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Sonny Clark

Born: Tuesday, July 21, 1931 Herminie, Pennsylvania

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