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
"Maybe this is the future for the development of new operas. If you have the means, you develop your own opera." -- Robert Lepage, director of Lorin Maazel's largely self-financed 1984.
As Anthony Tommasini notes in today's NY Times: "... Mr. Maazel has bought his way to the top without having paid his dues as a composer...what of deserving composers without means?"
posted by Jerry Bowles
9:13 AM
