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Greek & Composing: September 2013

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Saturday, September 14, 2013. The Outer Artist - Part 1: Taking Stock. First in a series on the "business" of being a composer. Hard as it is to try and survive as a composer on my own, I also find myself in the position of training future composers to take their places among the wounded and weary artistic warriors on a very bleak cultural landscape. Who signs up for this kind of abuse willingly? What sort of advice can I possibly give?

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New Chamber Music

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Each category can be sorted by clicking on the heading:. For example, clicking "Composer" will sort the database by the alphabetical order of the composers' first names. Clicking again will sort by reverse alphabetical order. To search for the music of a specific instrument, click twice on that instrument's heading:. All of the music for that particular instrument will be at the top of the database. 20 Advanced Two-Page Duets for Horn. See a score sample. A Long Since Faded Memory. See a score sample.

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Greek & Composing: March 2014

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The Outer Artist - Part 3: Multitasking. Third in a series on the “business” of being a composer…. How do I overcome this block? When thinking about how. How were they selected? Why are they in that order? Do they have to be in that order? Why are those notes designated for those particular instruments or voices? How is it that one minute there is nothing and the next, music appears? However, this series of arti...

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Greek & Composing: September 2014

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Friday, September 26, 2014. A very deep and profound piece of music was performed on the evening of September 25, 2014. At 7:30 PM, at the very time the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was to begin performing the opening concert of their 70. Anniversary Season, orchestra musicians, area students and devoted audience members stood in utter silence in front of the locked doors of the Woodruff Arts Center. The "opening night" program. I’m...

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Greek & Composing: January 2015

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Monday, January 5, 2015. I have arrived at a familiar annual benchmark: the beginning of a new calendar year. With the turning of a page in the calendar and a few days of rest between semesters, I can’t help but sift through the remnants of 2014 before plunging fully into this new year. I was on hand the next week (November 22) to hear performances of Debussy’s Première rhapsody. And the Symphony No. 3. My first film credit! Nickitas De...

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Greek & Composing: February 2014

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Monday, February 17, 2014. The Outer Artist - Part 2: Due Diligence. Second in a series on the “business” of being a composer…. Do I go about composing? Last time, I spent a lot of virtual ink on the questions of why. Although I still have more to say on this latter question in a future post). For now, as promised, I’d like to more fully tackle the issue of how. One should approach writing music. But they are not my. I want to compose&#...

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Greek & Composing: March 2015

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Three Ways To Escape A Cul-de-sac. However, whether it’s a circle or a sudden dead end, the road is still going nowhere. 1 Surround yourself with inspiring people. My epic lunch with some fabulous composers. Yours truly and Carman Moore. Interactions, such as the unique lunch I had in New York, are a fantastic way to escape the cul-de-sac. I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to be in the compa...From Ch...

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Greek & Composing: July 2013

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Tuesday, July 2, 2013. I have been thinking recently about my first composition teacher, Roger Hannay. Atlanta composers chatting it up after a recent. Performance by Terminus Ensemble. L-R: Natalie Williams, yours truly, John Anthony Lennon,. Tim Jansa and Adam Scott Neal. After all, Edgard Varèse has very few surviving works in his catalog and is nevertheless recognized (and rightly so) as one of the seminal figures of the early 20.

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Drew Dolan, composer. University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Society of Composers, Inc. Charlotte New Music Festival. Saturday, April 23rd, 2016. University of Akron Men's Chorus. Charlotte New Music Festival. May 30th-June 18th, 2016. Florida International Toy Piano Festival. January 9, 2016. St Petersburg, FL. MUSE: Contemporary Composers and the Wolf Collection. February 14th, 2016. Kristofer Rucinski, piano. SCI Region III Conference. February 27th, 2016. Kristofer Rucinski, piano.

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Greek & Composing: July 2014

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This and that about writing music and other somewhat related topics. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Outer Artist - Part 5: Getting Out There. Fifth in a series on the "business" of being a composer. To achieve any modicum of success in sharing music with a wide audience, I believe a composer must work from a solid foundation as detailed in the previous entries in this series. After all, the music must be compelling in some way or why bother learning it or listening to it? 1 Write for your friends. Don't for...