Composer of the Week

Composer of the Week, Vol. I, Issue IV – February 4, 2008
Name:  Michael Colgrass
Born:  1932, Chicago area
Current post:  Composer and lecturer
Previous post:  N/A
Publisher:  Carl Fischer
Suggested listening:  Winds of Nagual
Quote:
I’m not trying to pull any tricks or dazzle anybody. I’m trying to make a music which convinces me, and which is interesting to me. It’s as [...]

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Composer of the Week, Vol. I, Issue II – January 21, 2008
Name:  Tan Dun
Born:  1957, China
Current post:  Full-time composer
Previous post:  N/A
Publisher:  G. Schirmer
Suggested listening:  Symphony 1997
Quote:
“Organic music” concerns both matters of everyday life and matters of the heart.
These ideas find their origin in the animistic notion that material objects have spirits residing in them, an [...]

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