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
Do you think some composers – regardless of their gender – write “masculine” or “feminine” sounding music? Is it plain silly to say that Beethoven is manly and Debussy womanly – or is there something interesting (if not really accurate) behind such statements?
To really play the provocateur, let me take the discussion into the present-day. Look out!
