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Tag: compositional practice
10 January 2026
Dear AM,
Like Fanny Doolie we like passing tones, but neighboring tones are merely for “shits and giggles”.
I keep learning from your value judgement. I go back to it again and again. I agree in principle with it, but I cannot think of a …
1 January 2026
Glossary of Musical Terms
I am looking for the edge of what you can hear. I can just about hear it but I can’t quite. That’s the thing I want. How do you get there? It’s a travel because it’s way on the horizon. And sometimes you find it to …
3 September 2025
—->The Village Trip’s Wolpe-Albers-Brouwer-Feldman Weekend<—-
With Thomas Flippin, David Glaser, Ben Verdery, Kentner Anderson, Robert Morris and much more.
The performance will feature Leo Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape With …
16 June 2025
The work discussed here will be released in a matter of months.
Here’s the story of a brilliant, talented composer with a heavy metal background tasked with writing an Agnus Dei for some group of amiable, good natured vocalists. The work turned …
8 November 2024
Jonathan Cross:
‘The spectral adventure has allowed the renovation, without imitation of the foundations of occidental music, because it is not a closed technique but an attitude.’11 Subsequent composers such as Marc-Andre ́ Dalbavie and Philippe …
17 May 2024
October 10 7:30 at Loft393
there will a preview of Trevor Bača-Paul Griffiths’ when the time comes featuring actress Nancy Robinette, director Joy Zinoman and Cygnus. This project is a first in theater, where the musicians as musicians are …
22 April 2024
Suben Memorial
Scorca Hall starting at 11 AM on May 4
330 7th Ave
7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
When I was studying composition with Joel Suben, he avowed a deep love of Carter. And he expressed a reservation.
Sometimes Carter “hangs his …
20 April 2024
Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt
presents
21st-Century Wanderers: Jonathan HARVEY / Helmut LACHENMANN
Manuel LAUFER, piano
Dorothea HAYLEY, soprano
Friday, December 13 (2021? during Covid?) at 8 pm
Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East
I …
