Composer David T. Little talks about writing his tribute to Lou Harrison, The Conjured …read more »
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What’s in a name? Are genre labels limiting?
There is often a tension between the artists creating new music and the journalists or marketers searching for the vocabulary to describe …read more »
For composers, the Internet’s lure is both a blessing and nuisance
By Ricky O’Bannon Composers are famously isolated creatures who treasure solitude, and not without good reason. It is in those quiet moments that a composer can channel those internal and external muses that the rest of us are too busy to hear. Mozart is reported to have said, “When I …read more »
David T. Little talks guilty pleasures and finding his voice as a composer
In classical music, we think about time differently than rock, pop or things like jazz. I worry that because we’re working off of printed music, we can lose that deep sense of time. So I try to play around with that, and it’s something I think about …read more »
