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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1964

Michael T. Angell

From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1954

Peter Bacchus

From: New Jersey

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1948

Chester Biscardi

From: Kenosha, Wisconsin

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1963

Benjamin Boone

From: Statesville, North Carolina

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1977

Corey Dargel

From: McAllen, Texas

How do you approach putting music to words? Corey Dargel

Corey DargelPhoto by Tei Blow Some composers believe that they can “interpret” a poem by setting it to music. They assume that the reader/listener must be guided through the poem...

Sounds Heard—Corey Dargel: Someone Will Take Care of Me

If Corey Dargel's output has always been the work of a singer-songwriter who engages in heady compositional strategies, he completely ups the ante with the two song cycles that constitute...

Defining Corey Dargel

The question implicit in my previous post on Corey Dargel's music was simple: Why am I not doing this? I think I have an answer now, and it's not the...

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949

Daniel E. Gawthrop

From: Fort Wayne, Indiana

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1903

Vittorio Giannini

From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Died: 1966

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945

Rozanne Levine

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1976

Marcus Maroney

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943

Robert Morris

From: Cheltenham, England

How does using music notation software affect your music? Robert Morris

Photo by David Morris In the early 1960s, when I was an undergraduate composer at the Eastman School, there was really only one way to reproduce one’s scores, short of...

How do music and nature connect in your work? Robert Morris

Robert Morris My Music and the Outdoors As a child I always enjoyed walking outdoors in natural settings such as forests and parks, but in the 1990s I developed a...

An Interview with Robert Morris

For me, performing Bob Morris's music is a tricky balancing act.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1972

Reginald R. Robinson

From: Chicago, Illinois