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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I regret my trip to New York did not yield a new post.  Mostly due to exhaustion between the city trip and roof work the following day, I decided to ponder this week’s composer and also the impact of Steve Reich’s music on society.
Regarding Reich, I think it is safe to say that the accessibility [...]

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Tomorrow morning I will travel to the source of many of the great developments in art and music since the early 1900’s:  New York City. I am planning my day around the Metropolitan Museum of Art, taking in everything I missed upon my last visit some 5 years ago (which is likely about 80% since [...]

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A master of both music and the written word, Ned Rorem has become one of America’s most honored composers.
Known primarily for his art songs (which number over 500), he has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his Air Music for orchestra, as well both a Fulbright (1951) and Guggenhiem (1957) Fellowship. He [...]

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After much thought, I have decided to make the blog more of a true blog than an impetus for getting my newsletter out.  I will still write the newsletter, but will post its contents here as a regular entry, not a PDF link.  Hopefully this will keep things flowing smoothly and make the site a [...]

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In February 2008, I changed the format of the newsletter out of a desire to have something more eye-catching on my office door.
No cause for alarm! There was a reason it changed all of the sudden, and I hope you like it
-Vinnie

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In order to get all of the information out to you, I will post the five or six back-issues of the Composer of the Week newsletter as PDF files.  If you are running Windows, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader or another PDF reader of your choice. (Mac users can use Preview as a default.)
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