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First, violinist Holly Mulcahy over at The Partial Observer writes an amusing (but very serious) article about behaviors which musicians are apt to endulge in (but shouldn’t), entitled How to Alienate Your Audience in 10 Easy Steps: Musicians.
Here’s a teaser:
An engaged, enthusiastic, and diverse audience is one of the strongest measurements for justifying an orchestra’ [...]
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The Seattle Chamber Players presented their fourth Icebreaker Festival of contemporary classical music this past weekend in Seattle. Present was current classical music writer/rockstar Alex Ross, who curated a concert of works by seven young New York composers who’d caught his ear (including five premieres).
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An interesting online discussion at the excellent site NewMusicbox about the mostly taboo subject of money and composers – it starts off with a brief essay by Mark N. Grant:
Money’s role in making composing possible is the most scandalously undercovered topic in all of musicology. Many otherwise probing composer biographies are strikingly deficient in their [...]
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 If author Robert Ludlum had written novels about 20th century music:
My humble entries:
The Dutilleux Dodecahedron
The Pärt Transubstantiation
The Feldman Parastolsis
The Glass Attenuation
The Eötvös Ziggurat
From Alex Ross:
The Kurtág Codicil
The Szymanowski Desideratum
The Goeyvaerts Predicament
The Danielpour Instantiation
The Gubaidulina Parallelogram
The Pfitzner Funkademonium
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Derek Bermel is one of America’s hottest and most admired young composers, with high profile commissions and performances all around North America. On his blog I found one of the most concise descriptions of how a composer finds their voice – here’s the crucial excerpt:
The following morning I returned to the darkened microfilm room [...]
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