Tag: contemporary classical music
Composer/Pianist Timo Andres Is Having a Week
"I've always felt myself to be specifically an American composer."
Composer Jennifer Higdon Lives in the Air of Ideas
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
Composer Anna Thorvalsdottir Is Optimistic
"The job of a composer is a lot more complicated than only writing music."
David Chalmin Introduces Dream House Quartet
"What I like in music is where something magical happens and where there is soul and a life behind that's never going to be predictable."
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein Juxtaposes Bach…
"I just wanted people to experience this music in a primal and hypnotic way. Kind of going back to what made us fall in love with music in the first place."
Gabriel Kahane Gets Political
"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
John Adams Revisits an Old Friend
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."
Composer Juan Pablo Contreras Unmasked
"I wanted people to ask themselves what is my personal identity? What kind of mask have I designed for myself? "
Osvaldo Golijov Takes a Walk on the Grief Side
"I do tend to be more private in my grief than other people. So perhaps through the music I can connect in ways that I cannot connect as a person."
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."