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
Here's some red meat from today's Wall Street Journal. Writing about the recent Los Angeles Philharmonic Minimalist Festival, Brett Campbell opines:
"Yet despite the immennse variety of music played here over two weeks, it all shared a rejection of almost two centuries of creeping musical complexity that, by the early 1960s, culminated in the dissonant atonal sounds that eventually alienated listeners."
