Thanks to Clarke Rigsby & Tempest Recording, Matthew Luttrell, and Martin Province, I have two recordings of the Wind Symphony concert from last week. If you missed the performance, check out the mp3 under the works page. Just click the music note!
In other news, I hope you dig the new layout (I do). I wasn’t sure what to put on the home page and I kinda felt weird seeing my face every time the page would load with the old layout. So, in my journey to find out who I am, I’ve decided to post quotes once a week (or if I’m excited, maybe two or three times) from various composers/music professionals. The Composers on Composing for Band is a fantastic series and it was awesome that I got a lot of responses to my question from them and others.

But most of those guys are souly band.

I found a book at Barnes and Noble called Composers on Music by Josiah Fisk that has a HUGE collection of quotes and short passages from papers of a ton of the greatest composers from Bach to Babbitt. I’m not saying that I necessarily agree with all the quotes I’ll be posting nor am I saying that Milton Babbitt is a great composer but I certainly do find them highly enlightening. They range from composers talking about other composers, to inspiration, advice to young composers, to mathematics in music, to thinking about music in color–very specific topics. It was way worth me paying Liszt price for it.