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Contemporary Music Professionals

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How many blogs do you follow? Or LinkedIn threads? The volume of millions of us trying to ensure our voices are heard can be deafening!  An interesting thread I've followed on LinkedIn asked the question whether a composer must have a music composition degree in...

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50@50 Salem MA

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Salem Massachusetts conjures up…conjurers!  For better or worse, the worldwide perception of Salem – derived from the Hebrew word for Peace – is that of witches, spirits, evil and human judgment gone so very wrong. Truly, my first impression walking down some of the town’s...

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50@50 Franconia NH

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Landscape shapes culture, but the people who come from elsewhere create impose their own terms and names onto the landscape. It is so interesting how different waves of immigrants saw and named the landscape differently. Since I’m from the Midwest “Notch” was a new term...

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50@50 Portsmouth, NH

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I love attending music festivals – especially composer centric events where one can listen to 30-40 radically diverse new pieces from emerging and seasoned composers!  This year’s breadth of music was inspiring, motivating and also affirmed my creative work.  Crossing the continent to Portsmouth New...

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50@50 Fairbanks AL

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Start a discussion on Alaska, and people think of glaciers, cold, Eskimos, the gold rush and the oil spill. While it is all of those things, the culture embodies so much more. How Alaskans transform their experiences in this environment into works of art is...

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Composing in the Wilderness ’13 Part 3

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FAIRBANKS 7/20 Yesterday we worked like ground squirrels preparing for winter, only we were preparing our pieces.  Today, we met at the Museum of the North.  2013 is the 100 year anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinnley.  A special exhibition highlights the journey. I...

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