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 can't resist at this point mentioning the following quote from W. H. Auden:
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow poets. The poet's audience consists of myopic school teachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow poets. So a poet writes for his fellow poets.
(I couldn't find it where I thought it was, so I kind of got if off the web, so it may not be completely accurate, but it's close enough.)
posted by Rodney Lister
12:22 PM
