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The way we name music (and babies) now

When it comes to naming music and babies, I feel like it takes a brilliant linguist or a sort-of-crazy-person to do something truly original.

October 28, 2011 | ,

Compose a piece for Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound are the Artists-in-Residence at the Mizzou New Music Summer Music Festival, held every July at the University of Missouri Columbia and sponsored by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The Festival features world premieres of music by 8 composers selected through an open application process to write a piece for Alarm Will Sound. Send scores and recordings by […]

September 20, 2011 | ,

Get to Know the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival Resident Composers

We caught up with the 8 Resident Composers of the 2011 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival to ask them about their music and themselves. AWS: What is the first piece you wrote? Do you still own up to it? Clint Needham: The first piece I wrote was Star Crossed Lovers for band as a high school freshman […]

July 1, 2011 |