I didn’t know that I was going to buy the iPad when I entered the Apple store – I told myself I was going to “look.” Something took hold of me about 10 seconds after I walked in and I knew that I would be purchasing the device. I love it. It is more […]
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St Olaf Choir features a local
Minnesota Public Radio features an item on a St. Olaf Choir performance of music by Abbie Burt Benitis. The audience sat silently, transfixed by the beauty and creativity of the piece and granted the composer a prolonged ovation. At intermission she was besieged by admirers. Abbie is the grand-niece of Christmas-carol composer Alfred Burt.
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The Ear of the Beholder
Dan Kreider has another thoughtful blog post up, this one daring to go into communication with the audience: Simply put, art is perception. Although many 20th-century composers adopted the mantra of Milton Babbitt (“Who cares if you listen?”) and often ignored their audience completely, the inescapable fact remains that the essence of art is not […]