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| Feedback Session |
Spending two days in Buffalo with five jazz composers and
their mentors preparing scores for readings by the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra has been an education. The fine-grained detailed critiques of written
parts offered to Gregg August, Anita Brown, Joel Harrison, Ole Mathisen and
Dave Wilson by the symphony players, conductor Matt Kraemer, and senior composers
Anthony Davis, Nicole Mitchell and James Newton -- which had to be corrected in
the scores overnight -- seem daunting,
even for me, used to processing multiple iterations of articles quickly from
manuscript to publication in magazines. The depth of listening of everyone is
impressive.
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| Matthew Kraemer and BPO |
This afternoon NewMusicBox Frank J. Oteri and I are to
address the composers and most likely students from U of Buffalo's music
program about career development issues, especially pertaining to press
relations and media usage. What can we say? That composers like everyone else
in the arts has to now be their own publicist and promotions/marketing
director, on top of everything else? Well yes, and that's no longer news. But
what else? I'm thinking about it while observing all the interactions. Right
now I'm saved from having to answer. The Buffalo Philharmonc Orchestra is just
about to perform.
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