Friday, January 25, 2008

Special guest Ed (Matt’s brother) – a presentation on writing for young band.

Lot’s of discussion about how one cannot be prosperous ($$$$) without really submitting to convention.

How much time will be spent on rehearsing your piece? It’s hard to say because of the way that school scheduling goes.

He doesn’t buy the idea of “Educational Pieces.”

Discussed how easily band music can become international.

Band composers use myspace to get the word out.

A lot of discussion about considering how weak the players are in many ways – instument grouping etc.

Talk about publishing – See Pepper Music.

Sullivan monologue –

what can we do (besides ostinato) to get the kids into it?

canon forms, ostianato, melody


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