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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
How to get your music performed
I agree that knowing a lot of performers, especially wonderful performers who love your music, are self-starters, and create their own concerts and performance opportunities, helps you have more performances. You meet these performers in music school, at conferences, by attending their concerts, through friends and the performers’ agents, and sometimes accidentally at parties, for example. You reach out to them by sending them scores, CDs, brochures, and CD and concert advertisements. I think the main thing about getting performances is to remain actively hopeful. Be persistent in a good way. Trust that you have written music that some number of performers will want to perform, love, and champion. If you feel that your music is valuable, it is easier to offer your music to performers and conductors.
This advice assumes that you have already gotten the music copied beautifully and that the CDs are reasonably well recorded and clearly marked.
Actually, the quickest way to get your music performed is to either arrange a concert yourself or to collaborate with another composer or group of composers and put on a concert. Hire the players and do the advertising and get the music out there. If you don’t already have a recording of the work, make one at the concert. Then you will have a recording to send out to get further performances. Be a self-starter yourself. You don’t have to wait to see if a mythical string quartet will magically fall in love with your new quartet. You can hire one and then at least you can hear the piece outside of midi. You can make whatever changes seem desirable and you can proceed onward. Bravery is likely to be rewarded.
posted by Beth Anderson
7:37 AM
"To Meet This Urgent Need"
I am writing from Rome, Italy where my wife, the musicolgist Andrea Olmstead is participating in a conference on Music at The American Academy in Rome, titled "To Meet This Urgent Need," a survey of the music program at the academy since 1921. She will be presenting a paper today concerning the music program from 1921-1937 (fellows Leo Sowerby and Howard Hanson through Roger Sessions and Samuel Barber). Over the course of the next three days conference organizer Martin Brody will speak and chair sessions with other invited musicologists and composers including Judith Tick, Carol Oja, and Vivian Perlis. There will also be concerts in the evening with soprano Susan Naruki and pianist Don Berman. Tonight a special concert of solo violin music is to be performed featuring music by long-time academy friends Elliott Carter and Geoffredo Petrassi. I will be posting again in a few days to follow up on the conference.
posted by Larry Thomas Bell
3:26 AM
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