Precious Toothpaste (or Why Bother?)
Why toothpaste? Composing music is not easy. At least not for me. It’s hard. And slow. And kinda lonely. And it requires a lot of sitting around with a piano or computer or piece of paper and...
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If you’ve been following my tweets, you may have noticed that it’s #operaplot season! What? You haven’t heard about #operaplot, the brainspurt of that blogging genius over at The Omniscient Mussel?...
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Instead of working on my own opera I seem to be spending the night trying to summarize other operas in under 130 characters. Hmmm… Maybe in a few years people will be trying to summarize Failing That...
View ArticleIt’s time to admit I have a problem…
I wrote one more #operaplot tweet today. It’s for Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. But as a rap. I thought that would be particularly appropriate, since the whole show is about Oedipus’s hubris, which seems...
View ArticleHow to write an #operaplot
Looking through the 900 odd (sometimes very odd) #operaplot entries, I started noticing some distinct trends, a number of “schools” of #operaplot authoring. This isn’t that surprising, there are only...
View ArticleWhy bother composing?
Jeffrey Parola sounds kinda bummed in his latest blog post. He outlines the all too familiar plight of the contemporary concert music composer (no appreciation, money, and little hope of either). He...
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