Composer of the Week

Ah, high noon approaches on the east coast and I find myself ready to face a worthy adversary:  the concert hall.  It is a truly strange place, the concert hall.  For all its glory and the millions of patrons whose musical palettes have been satisfactorily expanded, it is a discriminating structure when it comes to [...]

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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 I – January 14, 2008
Name:  Augusta Read Thomas
Born:  1964, New York
Current post:  Full-time composer
Previous post:  Composer-In-Residence, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Publisher:  G. Schirmer
Suggested listening:  Silhouettes
Quote: 

Don’t assume that someone else has the only “authentic” understanding of a work and that you “don’t know enough about it” to be engaged [...]

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