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
"A certain amount of brick-throwing might even be a good thing. There comes a moment in the career of most artists, if they are any good, when attacks on their work take a form almost more acceptable than praise."
Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
These are words I try to keep in mind when considering "criticism".
Readers interested in forming independent conclusions (as well as those interested in learning the actual title of the piece under review) may go here.
Disclaimer: In lieu of a little smiley face icon let me ststae for the record that the preceding has been posted purely for its educational and entertainment value (such that it is). I have no critical axes to grind.
posted by Tom Myron
9:57 AM
