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.
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Is there a preferred interpretive style/lineage for your music: a manner of playing which best reveals it? For example: 'Mozartean', Brahmsian', 'Skriabinesque')
Or not? If so, should performers be aware of this?
Have you ever experienced a performance of one of your works that was truly mishandled on the interpretive side?
Have you every pulled a piece (withdrawn authorization to play it) at the time of hearing a dress rehearsal? If so, what were the consequences?
Where is the most important node of communication for a composer: direct to the listener? To the 'deliverer' (performer)? For sure this changes when the music is electro-acoustic.
These questions arise as I begin to write about "Hard" in the context of new music.
posted by Judith Lang Zaimont
12:01 AM
