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New Music Box

• NEA and Jazz, Part 4
  According to trumpeter Jimmy Owens, recipient of the NEA's 2012 A. B. Spellman Award for Jazz Advocacy, "None of the jazz clubs you go to, and spend your money at, pay into the musician’s pension fund for the musicians who are working there." […]
• Inmates Running the Asylum
  Between self-publishing, creating performance opportunities through the initiation of new ensembles and concert series, managing commissions, and balancing the various challenges that accompany the life of the freelancing artist, composers find themselves in need of a wide swath of experiences outside of the classroom. Slowly over time, programs have been ex […]
• Growing Pains
  There is such a thing as reaching for the next rung of the career ladder too early. Yet there comes a time for every composer when one must either expand or else stifle development. Composers would do well to stay attentive to their own needs right now, and not what their peers, friends, and competitors are doing. […]

New Music ReBlog

• In My Lefty Dreams
  I actually dreamed this morning that Obama’s secret drone program was really a minimalist sound installation, a kind of soft Phill Niblock piece coming from concealed loudspeakers. reBlogged from: PostClassic […]
• How an orchestra boosted ticket sales by $23,000
  Young people are more responsive to the visual than to the aural, which is why using images to attract new audiences to classical music is a recurring theme On An Overgrown Path. A number of North American orchestras have been experimenting with concert visuals and the Toronto Symphony has now joined their number as described on the orchestra's website: […]
• The Drone-Industrial Complex (MP3s)
  You can, indeed, have your UI cake, or at least your UI eye candy, and eat it, too. And sometimes the easiest way to accomplish this goal is to relegate the two different tasks to two different online locales. The netlabel Pocket Fields, for example, is lovely, as is often the music that it releases. Each page on its Tumblr-powered site (pocketfields.tumblr. […]

NPR Music

• Russia's Hottest Protest Song, Courtesy Of The Military Elite
  An Internet hit is becoming the anthem for Russian protesters as they march against Vladimir Putin's rule. The musicians in the video aren't rock stars; they're veterans of the Russian army. […]
• The Romantic (And Still Relevant) Sound Of Bolero
  With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the hosts of NPR Music's Alt. Latino share Latin love songs from a time-honored tradition. […]
• Joe Cocker: The 'Hard Knock' Life Of A Singular Singer
  Cocker has one of the most recognizable voices in rock. The British balladeer discusses old demons and a new album. […]

NY Times Music

• Music Review: ‘Biophilia’ Live at the New York Hall of Science
  The first night of Björk’s six-show residency at the New York Hall of Science included a live spectacle for the album “Biophilia,” with towering pendulum harps, multimedia visuals, Tesla coils and an Icelandic choir. […]
• Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50
  The Rolling Stones, the Chieftains, the Beach Boys and El Gran Combo, all 50 years old and still relevant. […]
• Clare Fischer, Arranger and Keyboardist, Is Dead at 83
  Mr. Fischer was influential in jazz and arranged pop and R&B compositions for the likes of Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Prince and Celine Dion. […]

Composers

• Andrew May
• Claude Baker
• David Bithell
• David Lang
• David Sargent
• George Crumb
• Harvey Sollberger
• Joseph Klein
• Keith Kirchoff
• Libby Larsen
• Scott Meister
• Steve Ricks