Paperback study scores of Symphony No. 1, My Hands Are a City, available for print-on-demand.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
news 12/1/09
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08-Dec-09Today we launched the Jonathan Newman e-newsletter; a probably-quarterly update on news, performances, and recordings. Join the mailing list, or view the current issue here.
What you do
04-Dec-09In the in-between space between finishing a piece and the premiere, you write a program note. And then you take a deep breath while hoping that it’s even remotely close to fitting the piece. Because you actually haven’t heard it yet.
news 12/3/09
03-Dec-09New work: De Profundis, for massed winds. Premiering with the 2010 Central Oklahoma Directors Association Symphonic Band in early January.
Swami Faxon
02-Dec-09The Economist recently interviewed Roger Faxon, head of EMI Music Publishing, for their audio podcast (sure, I subscribe, what of it?); while listening I found myself bobbing my ear-budded head up and down in vigorous agreement on the subway, causing my personal space in the train car to generously expand. Except for a brief but [...]
But enough about me
01-Dec-09…let’s talk about my Online Presence. If my name is the commodity I’m promoting (which it kind of is), then I have placed that name on a baffling array of shelving around the internets: * My website* This notebook* BCM International website* BCM Forum* Facebook* Twitter* Classical Lounge* The AMC Online Library (formerly NewMusicJukebox)* Wind [...]
Experiment
10-Dec-09When I was in Austin a few weeks ago for a short residency at Southwestern University, I perused the office shelves of my my host and old school chum, composer Jason Hoogerhyde. Upon finding the beautifully bound vocal score to his new opera The Color of Dissonance, I gasped at the lovely paper, color cover, [...]