A Matter of Matter (IV)
Share NOW it’s an Event! On Wednesday, June 16, the Peabody Institute (where I teach in the music theory department) approved the budget for a theory department sponsored residency for Louis...
View ArticleHow do you do it?
Share I am having trouble starting this piece. I’m almost done with it, in fact, but I can’t seem to get it started. It is a piece for an unusual combination, commissioned by the Amsterdam based...
View ArticleSeattle Symphony’s Celebrate Asia! Composition Competition
Share Speaking of competitions: Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia! announces its first Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia! Composer Competition. The Competition seeks to promote young composers who are...
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Guerrilla New Music: A Method
Share The following is a lecture I will be delivering to the 2010 Interamerican Festival for the Arts on September 2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I am indebted to Christian Carey for editorial help....
View ArticleA Matter of Matter (V)
Share This weekend, Great Noise Ensemble began its 2010-11 concert season with two performances at the New Voices Festival, a festival of new works for voice organized by composition students at the...
View ArticleA Matter of Matter (VI): Hitting the Home Stretch
Share We’re at t-minus three weeks from the first rehearsal for De Materie with Great Noise Ensemble. It’s been a little bit of a mad scramble since the Washington Post featured our October 24...
View ArticleA Matter of Matter (VII): Running a Marathon
Share I have never run a marathon. I’m not exactly built to run marathons. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the importance of exercise, or that I don’t partake in it (although I often have to force...
View ArticleState of the Job Market
Share I’ve been thinking, lately, about the career expectations for composers in general and the state of the academic job market for composers in particular. When I started down this road some 21...
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Long Live the Struggle?
Share I recently attended a concert featuring music by Antonin Dvorak. Dvorak is one of those much beloved composers whose music I find incredibly inconsistent due, in no small part, to his incredible...
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Third Annual Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia Call for Scores
Share The Seattle Symphony announces the third Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia Composition Competition. The Competition seeks to promote and recognize emerging composers who are interested in Asian...
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