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Articles by Michael Colgrass

Letter to the Editor: We Believe the Children Are Our Future
January 19, 2006 / By

Ms. Reynolds opens a very large subject relevant to our age in American music education. Band, orchestra, and choral music for children to perform should be written by the best composers, and in fact most of it today is written by non-composers.

Taming the Demons of Creativity
October 1, 2004 / By

The creativity needed to write a piece of music is deconstructed.