by admin | Mar 24, 2020 | Personal experience
One of the basic problems that a composer has these days is the necessity to market themselves to get more work while continuing to compose. Marketing and composing are two diametrically opposed activities. Composing requires total immersion in what you are doing and...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Music appreciation, Personal experience
In the XXI century, by breaking the conventions and the traditional relations of sounds as used in the XVIII and XIX centuries, sometimes the music seems to go nowhere. There are changes in the music but one is expecting the music to go somewhere in a certain way and...
by admin | Jul 8, 2016 | Personal experience
Before I continue to explain my framework to describe music, I have to share something that happened to me three days ago. I was composing a prayer for Sinai Temple, a cantorial, very tonal, piece, and I decided to look into the last piano pieces I composed before I...