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Concert on May 2 and May 4
Please join me and my fellow composers of the Random Access Music composers’ collective on May 2 and May 4 for six world premieres, performed by the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. This performance will be the third year of collaboration between RAM and Lost Dog. Joining the Lost Dog players will be special guest artist,…
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me: social entrepreneur
Last Fall, Steve Charles, one of the editors of the Wabash College alumnae magazine, contacted me to see if I’d be willing to participate in an online interview about social entrepreneurship. He seemed to think that my many activities with the Astoria Music Society as well as with the Random Access Music composers’ collective made…
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Music so bad it’s wonderful to listen to
In 1997, two Russian emigrees, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, created “the most unwanted song” of all time. When the two conceptual artists (who also experimented in the visual arts, too)Â arrived in the United States, they became fascinated with american-style public opinion polling. So they polled 500 people on their music preferences–everything from instruments to…