“A tour de force on the idea of ideas…” – The Boston Globe “Atop and around the many direct instrumental mirrors of Mr. Dennett’s voice is a greater musical landscape that’s sometimes lyrical and lush and sometimes frisky and peppy.…” – The New York Times Alarm Will Sound is excited to announce the release of composer Scott Johnson’s Mind […]
Congratulations to the 8 composers selected to work with Alarm Will Sound, Chen Yi, and Alex Mincek at the 2018 Mizzou International Composers Festival. The festival will be held July 23 to 28 in Columbia, MO and is presented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative and the University of Missouri School of Music. Oren Boneh, Berkeley, […]
In 1996 at the Eastman School of Music two conversations met. I had been talking to my friends about a problem fellow composers faced getting music for large ensembles performed. Either you won an annual, faculty-approved opportunity with the school orchestra, or you pulled together an ad hoc orchestra to perform the piece on a Composers’ Forum, usually with […]