Looking back at Orpheus
…the idea. The original oracle idea came from another Holland experience, which was that there were two great young composers in the bathrooms, and you could commission them for a…
Music by Jessie Montgomery & Whitney George
…City. Composer Jessie Montgomery was inspired by her upbringing in Manhattan’s Lower East Side for her setting of the poem Loisaida by poet, activist, and community builder Bimbo Rivas. Composer…
A Compendium of Ideas About Form in Music
…of musical phrase in a composition. It is one of the more elusive attributes of composition. (Andrew Staniland) For some composers, a formal structure can be predefined; many more will attempt…
Form in Music Essay
Form in Music Essay | Questionnaire Answers To read Jocelyn Morlock’s essay A Compendium of Ideas About Form in Music, click here. Below you can read the composers’ unmediated responses…
Caroline Shaw, musician.
…a litany of quite different complications, albeit complications of their own devising. For composers, notation prevents so much, but it allows so much more. It can be amazingly, exactingly precise…
Hank Knox | The Golden Age of the Harpsichord
…City. Composer Jessie Montgomery was inspired by her upbringing in Manhattan’s Lower East Side for her setting of the poem Loisaida by poet, activist, and community builder Bimbo Rivas. Composer…
Don’t get too comfortable
…a passage that sounds like Mozart, but really, it could be a critique of a system that esteems bourgeois music. In his latest opera, La Commedia, he offers the audience heartfelt…
Slack: An Essay Around Some Canadian Music
…“exact” comes from Latin exact – “completed, ascertained, enforced,” from the verb exigere, from ex-“thoroughly” + agere “perform.” When music is slack it does not thoroughly enforce completion. It stays open to be explored, co-created by…
More on Lachrimae Viventium by Stacey Brown
…the Canadian League of Composers, and Treasurer of the National Board of Directors of the Canadian New Music Network. You can learn more about her work at staceybrown.ca. Download a…