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I Am A Composer
Even as I was signing up for the American Composers Orchestra's "Compose Yourself" classes last year, I wasn't sure it was because I wanted to compose; but I hear a lot of new music and sometimes write about it, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to get inside the composer's head, to understand more of the process and therefore have more insight into the music.
By Gail Wein
Published: 2/23/2010
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The Economy of Exposure: Publicity as Payment?
Though recordings are no longer especially financially remunerative in this digital age, there does exist something uniquely valuable and not reproducible: the artists themselves.
By Alex Shapiro
Published: 1/27/2010
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Rediscovering Henry Cowell
Why is it that more than three quarters of the devoted audience for classical and concert music today might not recognize even the name Henry Cowell, much less his music?
By Leon Botstein
Published: 12/9/2009
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Nathaniel Stookey and Daniel Handler Raise the Dead
The Composer is Dead, composer Nathaniel Stookey's collaboration with celebrated children's book author Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler), is giving Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra some serious competition.
By Daniel J. Kushner
Published: 9/23/2009
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Fitzcarraldo Goes to Bali
I had written an opera, and I wanted to premiere it in Bali—not exactly the jungle, but close.
By Evan Ziporyn
Published: 9/9/2009
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On Record - An Overview of the State of Contemporary Music Recording (Part 3): The Digital Domain
If the final days of the CD are not eagerly anticipated by label managers, it's still a topic for contemplation and ongoing discussion.
By Joseph Dalton
Published: 7/15/2009
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On Record - An Overview of the State of Contemporary Music Recording (Part 2): Not-Profit Even If Not By Design
It's a given: money has to come from somewhere before discs get released. It's just that the need for dough is more on the surface in all realms of the always-struggling little realm of contemporary American music.
By Joseph Dalton
Published: 7/13/2009
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On Record - An Overview of the State of Contemporary Music Recording (Part 1): Still Spinning
It's said over and again: recordings are over and done with, except for all those CDs that keep getting released every month; it's similar to the even more familiar drone that nobody ever listens to contemporary music, except there's so much of it around all the time.
By Joseph Dalton
Published: 7/8/2009
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Native American Composers
As a group, Native Americans who write music churn out work in genres from classical to hip-hop, and those in the classical business write in styles from neo-romantic to electro-acoustic and pretty much everything in between.
By Gail Wein
Published: 4/8/2009
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The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Music
While most composers, performers, and listeners would probably agree that there is a wide and flexible field of possibility available in bringing a piece of music home creatively and with its dignity still intact, they would also be quick to add that there are distinct limits beyond which the native sense and spirit of a musical creation undergoes rapid self-destruction and loses its core identity.
By Joseph Marcello
Published: 3/25/2009
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