Christmas Composer Quest

This update is late in arriving, but this New Year holiday season I’ve been reminded that I did a podcast interview with composer and music producer Charlie McCarron a long, long time ago. Charlie contacted me about using an excerpt from our 2013 interview for a year-end podcast dubbed “Merry Podmas.” He wanted to focus on some of the best pieces of advice he has received from his interviews with many different composers.

In my case, he focused on my thoughts about musical “boxiness.” That interview can be listened to in your browser here:
http://charliemccarron.com/mediaftp/composerquest/composer-quest-109-merry-podmas.mp3

I come in at about 7:55 into the podcast, but the whole episode is valuable for all composers to listen to.

Charlie McCarron

Composer Richard Russell is a philosopher at heart. In his mission to become a better composer, he went back to school to study the big questions surrounding aesthetics, music, and beauty. He has also dug into both existential and practical composing topics in his podcast Creativity & Composition (one of my favorites).

I’m pleased to bring you this Composer Quest podcast interview with Richard, in which we discuss everything from feminist musicology to Plato to getting performance royalties from ASCAP.

To hear that original interview, head over to:
http://www.charliemccarron.com/2013/11/philosophies-of-music-composition-with-richard-russell/

And browse around Charlie’s other podcasts. They are all worth listening to!

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