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Once “Lost”, How to be Found?
I love this article written by Carlton Cuse, one of the show runners of my favorite television show of the last decade, “Lost.” In this article he faces a crisis […]
Children Choose Music
This article by Joseph Plambeck is about how retailers such as Best Buy are making up for the loss of CD sales by offering musical instruments for sale. As such, […]
On Audio Fidelity
Can you remember the first time you heard a live performance of a symphony that you love? I recall hearing the Beethoven Ninth for the first time in a live concert. I was in my last year of high school and heard it performed by the Honolulu Symphony. It was…
The song as a (gendered) script
Have you spent time browsing around ASCAP’s website? Some interesting things buried there. For instance, here’s Murphy’s Laws of Songwriting, including this bit about aiming your songs especially to an […]
When Anything Goes, What Has Merit?
An important article (link below) by Anthony Tommasini in the 14 Feb 2010 New York Times asserts that for both composers and performers, the old “dogma” has been discarded and […]
Creating music | Writing about music
I write music, and I also write about music. So this quote from singer-songwriter Andrew Bird has some resonance for me: Ultimately, I think that writing about music is a deliberate […]
What’s the opposite of creativity?
Students of the great German philosopher Hegel are familiar with his notion of the dialectical process. It is commonly summed up as the way a prevailing thesis is confronted by […]
Postconventionality and creativity
Ruth Richards’s excellent book, Everyday Creativity features an essay by Mark A. Runco called “To Understand is to Create.” In this essay, Runco argues for three stages of creativity, picking […]
Schoenberg the sentimentalist?
I’m reading Howard Gardner’s influential book on multiple intelligences, Frames of Mind. Gardner adds this quote from Arnold Schoenberg, “hardly known for his sentimentality”: Music is a succession of tones […]
Bob Dylan on audiences
Bob Dylan has an interview on his website in which he has some interesting things to say about audiences and styles. About the craft of creating music, for instance, he says: […]
Coloring inside the lines
Have a look at this baby girl, coloring in a coloring book. She is enjoying the sensory experience of it, the tactile sensation of having crayons in her hand and […]
Is there a gendered aesthetics? A few good questions
When I wrote my Violin Sonata last year, I was grappling with several questions from the realm of New Musicology. I thought I would share them here to see if […]
What Chefs Can Teach Composers
It’s not a show I usually watch, but I happened across something called Hell’s Kitchen on television the other night. For the uninitiated, it’s a reality TV show in which […]
What Is “Children’s Music”?
In the 9/6/07 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, with Maroon 5 on the cover, lead singer Adam Levine’s mother makes a provocative statement: “I wouldn’t let him listen to kid’s […]
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