Beethoven AND Bust!
How can classical music possibly balance demands for both Beethoven and new music? Why does it matter?
Beyond Dumbing Down
This post is the speech I delivered at SphinxCon last week. (Video) Yes, it’s long at 15-minutes… but I’ll bring in some of the more interesting pictures from the slideshow. …
Why Is Your Music Neo-Romantic, Rick?
I only began composing in 1999, about 5 years after I started transcribing symphonic music for my mixed octet CutTime Players (CTP). It started when I had this extremely vivid waking …