I’m sure I’m not the only composer who periodically takes stock of her collected works, as a way to glean whatever insight may come from …
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Category Archives: composition
One of the drawbacks of being a pianist is that you can spend an awful lot of time playing alone, unlike other instrumentalists who, almost …
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While working out the order for this recital, I split the pieces from the 30 Days Project into two sets and alternated them with other …
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I was very pleased with how my recital went on Wednesday! What I am less pleased with is how tedious the task of editing video …
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Here’s where I’ll be tonight, hearing a program of 20th- and 21st-century works presented by local new music powerhouse, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, or …
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My dear fellow music nerds, I’m at my wits’ end. I mean, I’ve had it. I have just had it! And I can’t take it …
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NaBloPoMo Day 27! I found out recently that the audio hosting site I had been using isn’t working anymore. It might come back at some …
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NaBloPoMo Day 15! The conclusion to my little series on criticism continues to brew, so I thought in the meantime I’d post some Actual Music. …
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NaBloPoMo Day 13! I left off yesterday discussing my utopian vision for a better world. 😉 Or, at least my fervent hope that human interaction …
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NaBloPoMo Day 12! When I was a fresh-faced, eager young grad student in the first term of my Ph.D. composition program, I took a seminar …
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