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Alex
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Mar 12, 2013 •
Writing small things has been a refreshing and fun way to gear up for another big piece on the horizon!
Technically, it’s probably safe to say that here on the Mid-Atlantic coast we experienced spring for most of winter, but even so, it was a very nice thing to throw open the windows this week, and putter around the house in shorts and flip-flops—the first sockless days of spring are very exciting! To add to...
by
Alex
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Mar 28, 2012 •
This is quite possibly the very most wonderful version of John Cage's 4'33" EVER.
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Alex
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Mar 16, 2012 •
I attended Quaker school from kindergarten through 12th grade, so I am very, very familiar with the moment of silence. We had lots of moments of silence, and we also had a lot of half hours of silence in the form of Quaker Meeting. Although it wasn’t intentional, these periods of silence turned out to...
One of the great things about my day job is having the opportunity to meet, talk to, and listen to the music of living, breathing composers from all walks of life. Over the past few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of writing about the music of two composer heroines of mine. They both entered my...