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Category: On the Beat
9 July 2017
In response to the present desultory state of affairs, we are now seeing some encouraging developments. Call it The Van Cliburn Effect. Shortly after Sputnik put the USSR ahead of the US in the space race, Van Cliburn surprised the world by winning the …
18 December 2016
The Bang on a Can composers are now in the enviable position to compose and produce evening-length works. David Lang’s “love fail” & “Little Match Girl” were followed in 2014 by Julia Wolfe’s “Steel …
22 August 2016
above: composer Eleanor Cory
It’s here:
https://www.cmc.ie/features/if-you-need-audience-we-dont-need-you
Enthusiastically in agreement.
One difference: Short works are ok.
Regarding young composers, RSF has taken risks on behalf of young …
14 May 2016
Babbitt & The Erotics of Inversion
This piece began as a lecture at the Universidad Veracruzana in September, 2015, hosted by Babbitt protégé, Emil Awad.
This is rough. It needs all kinds of reorganization.
Susan Sontag spoke this way in Against …
5 February 2016
Andrew Imbrie is one of the precious few great American composers, and we have to thank Anthony Korf, George Rothman, Harold Rosenbaum, Riverside Symphony, and the New York Virtuoso Singers for championing Imbrie last night with a performance of a …
19 October 2015
We are now mostly homophonists improvising primarily with a few big unordered collections of pitches–diatonic & octotonic, whole tone & chromatic hexachords.
We are all tired of anything that moves like a row. We are tired of being …
20 July 2015
About the Post-Maximalists
They love the Minimalists & the Post-Minimalists.
But they love doing stuff. The 20th C. is the Burgess Shale of compositional techniques.
from Wikipedia on “Burgess Shale”
“Stephen Jay Gould’s …
