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Tag: compositional practice
22 May 2023
Trickters Picaros and Del Tredici’s Herrick
Some picaresque resources
Access to the Picaresque, roughly from more probable to less probable —
Bugs Bunny
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Barry Lyndon
Gulliver’s Travels
Moll Flanders
The Reivers
Pynchon
Til …
1 July 2022
RSF commissioned David Amram to set two poems by his old friend Jack Kerouac, celebrating the Kerouac Centenary, scored for voice and two guitars.
Hear them on September 10 at St. John’s in the Village, an opening event for The Village Trip. They …
12 February 2022
Frank Brickle is now, I believe, working on setting The Compete Poetical Works of TE Hulme. This is a worthy project that must be seen to completion.
One of the features that webmaster Marc Wolf set up on this blog is “categories”. One …
23 November 2021
A modernist composer joined a music composition faculty, but not without first being interviewed by a minimalist already on the faculty.
Minimalist:
–We understand you’re a modernist and we’re OK with that.
Modernist:
–Thank you …
4 November 2021
Agustín Castilla-Ávila’s “True Love is Not a Flower”
see http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/chp4-7.html
Agustín Castilla-Ávila’s music often sets into motion something that I’ve come to think of as instrumental …
28 June 2021
루프를 기반으로 한 음악들
처음 차승민을 만난 것은 2010년, 대금 연주자인 그가 국가 문화 교류 사업의 일환으로 뉴욕을 방문했을 때였다. 당시 나는 예전 자리에 있던 ’룰렛’에서 열린 …
23 June 2021
La Musique en Boucle
John Chang sur Seungmin Cha
En 2010, j’ai rencontré Seungmin Cha pour la première fois, une joueuse de daegeum (flûte traversière en bambou d’origine coréenne) qui recevait une bourse gouvernementale d’échange culturel …
7 June 2021
RSF support the Third Street Music School and Make Music New York
David Conte studied with Nadia Boulanger. Joan Forsyth, Piano Chair at the Third Street Music School, brought him from San Francisco to the East Village to give a masterclass and to …
