Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
Record companies, artists and publicists are invited to submit CDs to be considered for review. Send to: Jerry Bowles, Editor, Sequenza 21, 340 W. 57th Street, 12B, New York, NY 10019
I dabbled early on as a kid, I guess. But composition, at least as most composers of contemporary art music think of it, generally requires heavy and long years of training, despite the occasional whiz kid. I had no formal training or foundation to work with until college, self taught until then. And yeah, there are many problems to overcome if you do it that way.
I never did realize I was a genius, but that revelation will surely arrive any day now, along with the MacArthur Prize.
