New Music Book on Composer Jennifer Higdon Now Available through McFarland Press "Composing in Color" Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces  blue cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, City Scape, Concerto 4-3  and  Violin Concerto  (2010 Pulitzer Prize). These compositions illustrate her breadth of style and avant-garde technique. The author examines these works—with commentary by Higdon—as well as the music of her first opera, with a focus on compositional history, musical characteristics, formal analysis and critical reception. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christina L. Reitz  is an associate professor of music at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Her research on Jennifer Higdon has been published in the  Grove Dictionary of American Music , the  International Alliance for Women in Music Journal , and the  North Carolina Literary Review . Christina L. Reitz Foreword by  Marin ...

You just enrolled for your first semester as a music major or minor . After being slammed with half a dozen ensembles, requirements to practice over six hours a day, hundreds of hours studying music history and music theory , you begin to wonder why you decided to study music in the first place. Then you remember: Music is fun! It is? To Survive Music Schools you must learn to HATE MUSIC, the fall in LOVE with it all over again! How can you survive the insane schedule? I give you three ways: 1. sleep 2. eat right and exercise 3. learn to say "No!" If you learn how to do these three things during music school , you will not only survive, but thrive as a musician, student, and individual. Someday you will LOVE music again! Read the full blog here: http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-shocking-truth-about-music-school.html Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE for more videos on art, music, film, writing, and the crazy creative life!...

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Top 25 Ways You Know You are a Contemporary Composer Formidable Composer  Eric Whitacre 1. You try to tell the time signature of your blinker as you drive 2. You wonder if Mozart would have Tweeted 3. You ruin movies by complaining about how John Williams steals from Wagner and  Stravinsky 4. Your significant other has been relegated to long diatribes about the merits of  classical music  over pop music 5. Said significant other has also been dragged to numerous classical music concerts, including at least one that involved a laptop or singing robot 6. You can’t resist saying “I’ll be Bach” when you leave the party 7. You have an appreciation for Schoenberg and Cage that your music ed friends do not understand 8. You ever conducted the radio with a pencil in your car, while driving and drinking a cup of coffee 9. Your children grow up listening to Mozart…AND Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn 10. You are used to the semi-surprised look of sh...

Happy Halloween Everyone! Enjoy your special treat with a free Halloween music download called "Halloween Eve's Birthday Bash". It is available NOW at Easy Ear Training.com. http://www.easyeartraining.com/2010/10/29/new-free-ear-training-download-happy-halloween/ I hope you enjoy this fun and utterly SPOOKY Halloween Track! Thanks for visiting the New Music Resource! In case you haven't noticed, the New Music Resource now includes Music Appreciation course outlines, based on the Bonds, Stolba, and Kamien music history textbooks. These short outlines include large print text for visibility in classrooms, as well as excellent You Tube examples. Many of the You Tube links not only have excellent performances of classical works but also include more modern performances of works. And, of course, I always include links that involve technology. This series of Music Appreciation blogs will continue en force for the next two months. Then the New Music Resource will return...