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 think Elodie Lauten has it exactly backwards when she writes that because of film and television people need stories. People have always needed stories and therefore we have film and television (and opera, theater, novels and yes, program music.) Charles Fussell once told me that he thought Mozart was such a great chamber music and symphonic composer because he was such a consumate theatrical composer. Even if a piece of music isn't literally "about" something it had still better feel like it is.
posted by Tom Myron
10:23 PM
