tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115788052008-03-27T13:25:03.008-07:00Jerry BowlesBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-57104967499952813042008-03-27T13:08:00.001-07:002008-03-27T13:25:03.074-07:00

Recently, I have been listening to a lot of music at work on Pandora.com. Pandora allows you to create your own radio stations by typing in the name of a song, artist, or composer. Then Pandora will compile a station full of music that shares the same qualities. Pandora is a result of what is called the Music Genome Project. Today, I have listened to the music of Beck, Amy Winehouse,

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-7118231403674854272008-02-28T08:21:00.000-08:002008-02-28T08:55:59.471-08:00

2008 brought something new to Mississippi Public Broadcasting: HDRadio. I had no idea HDRadio existed. I know more about it now, but I have yet to see an HDRadio on sale in any store. The new year brought a change in their normal format. More talk shows, news programming, and less music. With an addition of an HD channel they have created a new station of just music programming. And get

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-26727222292498550472007-09-16T17:13:00.000-07:002007-09-16T17:42:01.446-07:00

I recently finished my first instrumental work since Hurricane Katrina passed through these parts. It is a short solo work for clarinet titled, No Way. The initial seed of No Way was planted into my brain earlier this year when Al Theisen and I were talking about writing a new work based off of one of our older pieces where each bar of the new work was a variation off of that bar in the

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-35733847226995693752007-07-04T07:06:00.000-07:002007-07-04T07:08:52.799-07:00

Elliott Carter - Boston Conerto Symphony of Three Orchestras Charles Ives - Three Places in New England Symphony No. 2 Conlon Nancarrow - Piece No. 2 for small orchestra Ezra Sims - String Quartet No. 2

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-64713696190919643252007-07-01T13:25:00.000-07:002007-07-01T13:52:27.869-07:00

Dear Hydra, I apologize. I have spoken ill of you for about two years now. I was convinced you were sub-par and ill-conceived. I even asked your dedicatee to forget about you. I had ideas of cutting you up and rearranging you into a new work, but not anymore. Although your first performance was mediocre at best, I feel that you have yet to reach your prime. I have listened to the premiere

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-28556583830177240992007-05-24T18:35:00.000-07:002007-05-24T18:41:25.633-07:00

In two seconds flat (or so it seemed), Asa ravaged several cookies and my old Thriller cassette. Thriller, PYT, and Billie Jean (in analog format), you will be missed.

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-47336042910502029322007-04-24T20:47:00.000-07:002007-04-24T21:19:39.290-07:00

Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in a masterclass given by the Rome Prize winner, Ken Ueno. The masterclass was part of the two day Integrales New Music Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi. My flute work, Figment No. 3 "Euterpe", was given a wonderful performance by the USM faculty member, Danilo Mezzadri. Ueno had only encouraging words about my music. And later

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-2008651028507875182007-03-25T08:39:00.000-07:002007-03-25T09:07:00.693-07:00

Last year, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with one of the University of Southern Mississippi's extremely talented dance students to produce a new work. I created the piece In Pursuit of Mythical Beasts which is based on my wind sextet, Hydra. The above performance was from the 2006 USM Integrales New Music Festival. I finally got the video formatted to the right size so it could fit

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1171925381693351332007-02-19T13:47:00.000-08:002007-02-19T20:14:41.713-08:00

Sunday afternoon my wife and I went to our favorite Mardi Gras parade, which is the St. Pauls Carnival Association Mardi Gras Parade held in Pass Christian, MS. The entire town of Pass Christian was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Pre-Katrina population was just over 6,000 people and around 45,000 usually attended their annual Mardi Gras parade. This once gorgeous little coastal town is still

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1170563797917531242007-02-03T20:29:00.000-08:002007-02-03T20:36:38.033-08:00

I decided to look around for new recordings of music by Beat Furrer when I came across this. It isn't as entertaining as this goof I found a year or so ago, but I would love to hear FAMA composer Beat Furrer's take on Blue Suede Shoes.

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1165853449007414042006-12-11T07:57:00.000-08:002006-12-11T13:48:59.770-08:00

People are already planning centenary events. Today the (great)grandfather figure of American music is 98, and he is still composing. I hope that if I reach that age I am still as physically and mentally agile. So Happy Elliott Carter Day everyone!

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1161298788132970332006-10-19T15:46:00.000-07:002006-10-19T15:59:48.153-07:00

Al Theisen just turned me on to the classical music of Frank Zappa. More specifically the works on the Boulez conducts Zappa The Perfect Stranger recording. Perfect Stranger is an amazing work as is Naval Aviation in Art. Why aren't these works performed often? They are good works, they remind me of Varese and perhaps even Xenakis in parts. Check out this recording if you can. It is money

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1156462302983894862006-08-24T16:23:00.000-07:002006-08-24T16:31:43.013-07:00

Sorry, Colin Matthews, but you are going to have to take it back. Pluto is no longer a planet. They must have been Holst fans.

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1156256454086001462006-08-22T07:08:00.000-07:002006-08-22T07:20:54.320-07:00

Asa recently treated the family to a wonderful afternoon concert of what sounded like aleatoric piano music. I would like to be the first to announce that Asa is a musical genius. Look at that technique. Amazing!

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1156017340882926572006-08-19T11:35:00.000-07:002006-08-19T12:57:36.733-07:00

I apologize for my unintended hiatus from S21. But I have had an extremely hot and busy summer here in Hattiesburg. Like Jerry, I also suffer from asthma and this conflagration known as summer is not so fun for us. Anyway, a couple months ago I participated in the Integrales New Music Festival here in town. I had two works performed this year and a previous post mentions my solo flute work

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1150246850356266202006-06-13T17:59:00.000-07:002006-06-13T18:00:50.366-07:00

Death’s truer name Is “Onward,” no discordance in the roll And march of that Eternal Harmony Whereto the world beats time. Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1147228896164531452006-05-09T19:26:00.000-07:002006-05-09T19:41:36.176-07:00

Today the father of serialism turns 90. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago at Milsaps College in Jackson, MS during a two day Babbitt-palooza of concerts and lectures. He was a very nice man, but did not seem the least bit interested in any of the lectures being presented on his music. I think I may have even heard him mutter a few four letter words at one lecturer. Anyway, I

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1147140781758274112006-05-08T19:09:00.000-07:002006-05-08T20:01:20.736-07:00

Two or three years ago, I composed a work for solo alto saxophone titled, Figment. Later the same year, I composed a work for solo violin which I named Figment No. 2. I bet this wasn't the first time the lack of imagination for a title has been the impetus for a composer beginning a series of works. Last summer, I was asked by Al Theisen to compose a short work for solo flute for his then

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1142824130828996432006-03-19T17:28:00.000-08:002006-03-19T19:18:31.790-08:00

Recently, I read an article (I can't remember where, NY Times, Newmusicbox, one of several blogs...) which discussed the idea of world premiere performances and when is a performance an actual "world premiere." Is the world premiere the initial performance? Does it occur during the performances which occasionally take place before the big Thursday Night Symphony concert? Is it the big

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1142042069708940092006-03-10T17:11:00.001-08:002006-03-10T17:54:29.713-08:00

I don't think I have ever considered composition as a profession. There are very few composers in this country that pay their bills by composing alone, so we resort to other methods to make ends meet. Some composers are also performers (which is pretty handy in getting your works performed), some conduct (ditto), some teach, and others work in completely unrelated fields. The most

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1138304352376740612006-01-26T11:36:00.000-08:002006-01-26T11:51:29.943-08:00

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1136403981363967972006-01-04T11:38:00.000-08:002006-01-04T11:51:31.646-08:00

I have decided to join the band wagon and make a post for the new year and recapping last year. First congratulations to Jerry on the first anniversary of the new Sequenza21 New Music community. (and a little thing called the Deems Taylor award.) ------------------------------------------------ 2005 was a good year. I joined S21 in March after being a frequent visitor for a couple years. In

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1134267570147437462005-12-10T18:04:00.000-08:002005-12-10T18:19:30.160-08:00

I was driving around the other day, and I popped in a Tori Amos cd I had in my car. It was her disc, Under The Pink, and it brought back memories of the first time I was introduced to prepared piano. I was in high school and it was a few years before I had heard of John Cage. I listened to the song Bells for Her, which is just vocals and prepared piano. I remember wondering what was wrong

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1132858639640014992005-11-24T10:13:00.000-08:002005-11-24T16:21:15.010-08:00

Saturday evening the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since hurricane Katrina. The concert program was as follows: Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, Opus 17 Claude Debussy, Arr. Arthur Luck: Clair de lune Christopher Theofanidis: Rainbow Body Gustav Holst: The Planets, Opus 32 A large portion of Biloxi looks like the above picture; other parts of the town were just washed

Everette Minchewtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11578805.post-1132327499300482662005-11-18T06:55:00.000-08:002005-11-18T07:24:59.313-08:00

Lately I have really been getting into Steven Stucky's Lutoslawski and His Music. In it Lutoslawski speaks of a chance encounter he had with John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. Composers often do not hear the music that is being played; it only serves as an impulse for something quite different- for the creation of music that only lives in their imagination. It is sort of

Everette Minchew