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A passage in Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything — describing how Bali's rigidly hierarchical caste society nevertheless governs itself by consensus — suggested two sociological analogies for three compositional …
The right & the left have divergent attitudes toward the shadow. The right might be more at home thereabout it does not have exclusive access. I suspect the right indulges in Shadow Pride.
What ails thee, uncle? Don't ask AI about political things, but about other things, AI can be charming. Here, my reading was already largely in accord with the agglomerator's. I just like the leg up because I don't always …
Dear Players, "1918" or "The Word of the Wind", for clarinet, violin & piano, was commissioned by Ebb & Flow Arts for Veritas Musicae, to be based on the poem "Word of the Wind" by Mah Jonggi . I am grateful to …
May 18, 8pm at Greenwich House is my next Boomer Bürgherlich work -- Clarinet Trio, "1918" Reserve HERE A successful romantic composer is humbly antisocial, maybe with a bit of picaresque misleading. Take the Burghers …
Kyle Miller & Daniel Conant's performance of Simple Composition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqeKwgtqUs Charles Wuorinen's book *Simple Composition* tells us what made him tick when he wrote it. He was brave to …