November 2010
3 posts
Here is the Program Note for the MATA Concert Next...
One of the enduring challenges of my short career has been coming up with a suitable epithet to describe what it is that I do. When I first began performing my own music as a pianist and singer in late 2005, I thought I was writing pop songs. Yet my less naïve friends smirked at my ignorance when I told them, lurching toward the piano, that I was going to give Avril Lavigne a run for her money,...
On Eating a Balanced Diet
So I am meant to be blogging three times in advance of this concert I’m doing on November 17th for the MATA Festival Interval series, in which a number of guest curators (of which I am one) present concerts of their own devising. For this first post, I’d like to talk about the question of a balanced musical diet, by which I mean, is it acceptable for new music institutions to program...
