choreographed by Nigel Charnock, Lecavalier danced with Patrick Lamothe to the music of Leonard Cohen, Brownie McGhee, Billie Holliday and others. Described as a narrative of a long relationship
After the concerto, Cage launched upon the ambitiousMusic of changesfor piano: forty-five minutes of difficult piano music that would be his first major work to come completely from this place of silence. It was composed using chance throughout, from start to finish, and in every dimension of...
In Schoenberg’s case, however, this exalted faith in his own significance came to assume truly remarkable proportions. It did not derive merely from a confidently held belief that he had composed music of superior merit. Rather, it was a belief that his innovations of atonality and serialism ...
In a sense, Maloney did respect their trade. He had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. Maloney added to his underworld knowledge in prison, where he befriended fellow inmate John Paul Spica, a St. Louis Mafia soldier. More important, Maloney understood that the roots of the pro...
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. —Jason Silva 82 When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next th...
John told King to go home as the road and creek curved around to enter the woods. King yelped and obediently went home as he always did. John enjoyed his one mile walk out to the highway. The sun was now up and the frostiness was lifting. The trees were just beginning to show ...
Did Juilliard embrace your ambition to become a film composer? When I was there, there really wasn’t any film music focus or connection at all. I really wasn’t able to start doing anything with film music until college, when I had friends of mine who wanted to be directors, themselves...
a single interview, so they’re holding a secret and we wanted to explore what that could possibly be. We did a lot of research. We did 5 years of research, and then we met once a week for a year, writing…he wrote the book and...
“beatnik jazz,” he was taking credit for not only the lyrics but the music to hischansons. In 1960, he collaborated with veteran studio arranger Dick Jacobs on an instrumental album titledWritten in the Stars, also known asThe Zodiac Suite, with each track based on a different astrological...
diagramming sentences and reading blogs about how terribly written the Twilight series is, she edits for the Write Practice, causes trouble in Denver, and plays guitar very slowly and poorly. You can follow her onTwitter(@epbure), where she tweets more about music of the mid-90s than ...