(This is part 3 of the series. Read the previous parts here: 1, 2) A very early sketch of the music How It’s Made There are few things more intimidating to an artist than the blank canvas or the empty page. Many times I have been asked, “How do you write music?” as if the process was some ...
1 – The Road to the Rood
The opening lines of the "Rood" from the Vercelli manuscript Modern Heretics Like many things, my setting of the Anglo-Saxon poem, the “Dream of the Rood”, began as part of a long intellectual and spiritual journey. In my field of modern and experimental art music, every composer is searching for a unique voice, a signature in ...
Gazing East, Part III
Previous entries in the series here: Gazing East, Part I Gazing East, Part II Eyes to See, Ears to Hear Our very first night and once again before the end of the week, we attended a Vespers service together in a tiny, beautiful church located on the grounds of the orthodox theological seminary attached to the university. From the ...
Gazing East, Part I
My Cup Runneth Over One week in Finland at a conference on the music and hymnography of the Orthodox Church is far too little, either for the loveliness of the lakes and forests or for the ancient and variegated beauty of the traditions of the Eastern Church. As part of my personal project to process the ...
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