• Dec 02, 2018

The classical guitar scene is magic realist. Classical guitarists are mostly magic realists, as are most guitarist composers. By this I mean simply that the guitar is perpetually Baroque, or if not that, the guitar is …

• Nov 30, 2018

Mond, als träte ein Totes Aus blauer Höhle, Und es fallen der Blüten Viele über den Felsenpfad. Silbern weint ein Krankes Am Abendweiher, Auf schwarzem Kahn Hinüberstarben Liebende. I spoke to a microtonal composer …

• Nov 29, 2018

Carter took one abrupt turn, and much later, a gentle turn. His music from the '50s did not draw a hard line around scale degrees. Scale degree associations were not avoided like the plague. He drew the line in the 60s or …

• Sep 09, 2018

Nowe Fale Gdańsk William Anderson, guitar/mandolin Joan Forsyth, piano Program Fouad (solo guitar)-- --Emil Awad Cerises* (solo guitar, premiere)-- --Agustin Castilla-Avila Simone’s Lullaby (piano solo)-- --Terry …

• Sep 09, 2018

focal pitches, vs. focal harmonies

• Jul 04, 2017

What does the work of our composers today, in 2017, tell us about the disintegration of the US? Robert Musil & Hermann Broch both wrote titanic novels (The Man Without Qualities and The Sleepwalkers) about the end of …