thirteen ways

This is a lazy Sunday morning blog post from Melbourne. I’m grumpy that I have no TV to watch my political geek-out, Insiders, I’m pre-tea and pre-eggs and pre-social, so it’s time to blog.

I thought it might be interesting to link to some posts that I wrote this past season about working with composers.

I found working with Osvaldo Golijov to be a very powerful, moving experience. As a result, the two entries written during the experience could hardly be described as “objective.” I was clearly under the spell of this musical evangelist, and the gushing does get pretty embarrassing. Here, Osvaldo talks to a class at the University of Richmond. Here, I describe working with Osvaldo and Dawn Upshaw in rehearsal.

Here is a short post about working with Steve Reich in Richmond. By any standard measure that was a fan-bloody-tastic day.

Here is David Lang and the 8bb crew. Unlike many composers, David has both concision and clarity in his communicative armory, which equips him perfectly for working with prima donnas like us.

Working on Tamar Muskal’s Mirrors at the very opening of the season was very challenging, and although this entry is only tangentially about working with Tamar, I still find it an interesting post. Read and listen to composer chit-chats with Ben Broening and Frances White.

Last but certainly not least, Stephen Hartke talks here. Then here and here, I write about working with Stephen, which was a fascinating experience