Tag: composer
Linda May Han Oh Has Faith We Can Do Better
"I use music for a lot of different things. I want to bring something beautiful into the world. I also wanted to use it to question things."
Composer Jocelyn Hagen and the Vitruvian Man
"One of my favorite parts about that opening is that it's the beginning of a creative idea in which he starts and stops and then crosses something out right away."
Composer Shelley Washington Explores Duality
"So I hope this piece doesn't give permission, but acceptance, to people. Hopefully see themselves and feel seen."
Composer Ted Hearne Seeks to Understand His Place
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
Composer Ellen Reid: Life Post-Pulitzer and Post-Pandemic
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."