Recently, an article on New Music Box discussed whether composers should succumb to paying fees for competitions, and if so, how much money they should be willing to fork up. I quickly remembered Eric Whitacre’s advice on this, which is to pay absolutely nothing. However, whichever side you take as an emerging composer, it is … More My Two Cents on Paying Competition Fees
Yesterday I attended a flute recital at U of R given by Paul Edmund-Davies. He gave quite a charismatic performance; the entire program was a treat! Here are the pieces from the program: The first three numbers were flute and piano sonatas written by Giuseppi Rabboni (the piano part was composed by Roger Vignoles). Sonata … More Cool Stuff I’m Listening To: October 17, 2011
While surfing on the web, I came across some amazing pieces by Frank Zappa, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be going through more of them soon. I ran across these after browsing a bit through Eric Whitacre‘s blog. Lately, I’ve been going through old links that I neglected from our blog at the U of … More Cool Stuff I’m Listening To: July 30, 2011
