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Tag: compositional practice
14 March 2026
Mario Davidovsky was an honored guest at FICA21, a new music festival and seminar at the Universiad Veracruzana. He later convinced FICA212’s founder and Director Emil Awad to bring me to Xalapa 15 or 20 years ago.
Emil Awad finished high school …
24 February 2026
Froberger & Buxtehude to Bach
Bach clearly admired the bizarre in the works of Buxtehude and Froberger, and he composed all his own craziness into his revolutionary cosmic order wherein details of the A section that the work of modulating to V are …
23 February 2026
Image–pianist Kees Wieringa, Simeon ten Holt’s great champion.
Kees Wieringa’s Simeon ten Holt Playlist
Kees Wierinng, at the YXIE Festival in Villebelevin, 2024, organized a performance a performance of ten Holt’s Canto …
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
This is a glossary of terms in and around tricks of the trade, tricks that go back many centuries and are now mostly eclipsed. This is normal. There are always modalities that are in fashion, relegating other modalities to the …
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 …
