<p>Ok - no blog links this time. I highly recommend that aspiring composers check out John Adams' blog. It is called earbox.com. The latest post is all about composition master classes and the pitfalls that young composers typically fall into.</p>
<p>SpiritManager, You know I bite at anything on CC having to do with composition, but I must have missed your first post about this blog. Googled it and found the site and have to say it was most entertaining and enlightening. I will pass it on to my son, the true 88fingers.</p>
<p>Off the subject, is there a John Adams recording you can recommend? I have just one, and cannot get into it…</p>
<p>Do read all the comments, too. My son said this post was the talk of the composition world today - flurries of emails back and forth.</p>
<p>The Dharma at Big Sur, 2nd movement. Hard to resist.</p>
<p>Thanks for the post, SM, McSon will be ROFL when he reads it. (He’s the kid in the black t-shirt and torn jeans with the MaxMSP/Jitter…;)</p>
<p>I’ve been following this blog for some time.
Reason # 954 to love the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Mr Adams is the creative chairperson.
I attended the debut of “Dharma at Big Sur” under the baton of Essa Pekka Salonen. What a revelation and beautiful experience that was.</p>
<p>Hmm…</p>
<p>Dharma’s great.
I love the Violin Concerto and Chamber Symphony…though I think those are harder to swallow than Dharma for the newbie. </p>
<p>For a more populist and shorter appetizer, I recommend “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”</p>
<p>@ SpiritManager: Indeed the talk of the town! My inbox was clogged.</p>
<p>Re: the subject of the blogpost. I think it’s not just a problem among students, but among a significant portion of professional composers as well, many who have yet to pull themselves out of the modernist quagmire (the bad aspects…there are good aspects of modernism).</p>
<p>wow I was at the Dharma premiere as well! Small world!</p>
<p>Naive and Sentimental Music is his best piece, and I think the one orchestral work that should join the permanent repertory (the last two to do so being Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and DSCH 10).</p>