Tag Archives: classical music

Composer Win #_________

Let’s Party Like It’s 2013 The title of this post is a tribute to the blog of my social media acquaintance and in some abstract way member-of-peer-group*, Jenn Jolley. She has taken rejection letters/e-mails – the very hard currency of … Continue reading

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Spring Cleaning

Playing Catch Up Hello again, this will be brief. I passed my defense, and now I wait. I have updated the site, which basically entailed providing additional information in some places. But there are a couple of things to which … Continue reading

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Lies, Damned Lies, and…

Discursions There has sprung forth in the past week or so a renewed desire to examine the state of affairs for women composers. I haven’t had time to trace it to its original instigation, nor have I had a chance … Continue reading

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Pheedback Needed Phor Phat Beatz

This is the postlude of the piece, and there is a lot of narration (which you cannot hear because the MIDI does not execute it). I may tinker with the very end a little bit, but this is about 98 … Continue reading

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In Studying, Wisdom. Who Knew?

Bonds on Mahler Next week I’m taking my doctoral common comprehensive exams, and in studying, I’m reviewing as many readings as I can fit in. From the chapter “Ambivalent Elysium” in his excellent book about the post-Beethoven handling of the … Continue reading

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Starting Somewhere

Two Hundred of the 100 Greatest Classical Music Works It’s always difficult to find a source of suggestions for guided listening, and when left to my own devices, I will invariably end up listening to the same things I always … Continue reading

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