Comments on: Last Weekend in Cincinnati http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/10/last-weekend-in-cinicinnati/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Christian Hertzog http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/10/last-weekend-in-cinicinnati/comment-page-1/#comment-25256 Christian Hertzog Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:25:21 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=4215#comment-25256 Nice to read that the Midwest Composers Symposium is alive and well. Despite internet resources and composer websites, institutional provincialism still exists. When you’re in a city like Ann Arbor or Bloomington where there’s only one music program in town, it’s easy to fall into the trap that what’s happening in your city is reflective of contemporary music across the country (or even the world). As Jennifer points out at the end of the story, simply meeting new composers and talking music with them is a wonderful experience.

Hold onto your programs from the symposia. It’s fun to revisit years later and see who’s done well and how they’ve grown. Back in the early 1980s at Oberlin, I encountered a student composer named Kamran Ince (whose work was very abstract, movement titles consisted of metronome markings). There was also some whiz kid who played piano and conducted all these different works–Robert Spano.

]]> By: Steve Hicken http://www.sequenza21.com/2010/10/last-weekend-in-cinicinnati/comment-page-1/#comment-25252 Steve Hicken Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:42:32 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=4215#comment-25252 It’s good to see that this is still going on. I remember attend a Symposium at Oberlin as part of the Iowa delegation. In addition to the valus of getting to meet fellow travellers from other schools and to hear their music, it was good to see the collegiality of the faculty from the different schools.

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