Tag Archives: concert 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
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
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
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
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
Learning to Lose Graciously and Live Gratefully
Neil Patrick Harris Never Went Through This It just occurred to me that, all those years ago when he was still a precocious child doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D., Neil Patrick Harris was saddled with a completely stupid character name. … Continue reading
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
I.M. Posters I am only an “artist” in the kind of obnoxious and incredibly free interpretation that the term has been afforded in recent decades. This is why, when it came time to develop promotional materials (fancy word for flyers, … Continue reading