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Articles by Frank Oteri

Frank J. Oteri, New Music USA's Composer Advocate and the Senior Editor of NewMusicBox, is an outspoken crusader for new music and the breaking down of barriers between genres. Frank’s own musical compositions reconcile structural concepts from minimalism and serialism and frequently explore microtonality.

Is It Romantic?
September 1, 2003 / By

Why “romantic” is as bad a word as “classical”

Shaping Music
August 1, 2003 / By

The relationship between tools and language.

A Visit to the Workshop of Bart Hopkin
August 1, 2003 / By
A Visit to the Workshop of Bart Hopkin

Hopkin demonstrates and explains his Experimental Musical Instruments.

OBITUARY: Ellis Freedman, Legal Counsel to American Composers, 82
July 9, 2003 / By

Ellis J. Freedman, a pioneer in the field of intellectual property law who served as legal counsel to Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and others from three generations of American composers, died on June 16, 2003 …

Death and Transfiguration?
July 1, 2003 / By

The future of recordings

Carla Bley: On Her Own
July 1, 2003 / By
Carla Bley: On Her Own

The Temperature is HOT at the 2003 JJA Awards
June 30, 2003 / By

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, which was the hottest day of the year thus far, the heat of great music and occasional flaring tempers permeated the otherwise adequately air-conditioned B.B. King‘s Club near New …

What’s The Big Idea?
June 1, 2003 / By
What’s The Big Idea?

NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri ponders the big idea that is the orchestra.

Thinking Big: David Del Tredici, a conversation in 13 parts
June 1, 2003 / By
Thinking Big: David Del Tredici, a conversation in 13 parts

How to write what you want for orchestra.