Goethe Institut, Rome, Italy
01/29/2022 08:22 PM
It’s turning out to be a busy semester! I’m teaching a couple of new-to-me classes—Music Research and Bibliography for the grad students and the Symphonic Literature for both grads and undergrads. These are paired with my normal Music Entrepreneurship, the bassoon part of Woodwind Methods II, and a studio of 13 composers. Let’s talk about […]
12/29/2021 03:51 PM
Things I learned and/or did this year: I never really understood when classmates (or students) said they were “done” with school. I get it now. Learning is fun, but I have work to do. It’s hard to balance being a human, a student, a professor, a composer, and a programmer. I have to start curating […]
10/04/2021 02:26 PM
I had some writer’s block earlier this year. After completing Shindig for horn choir, I flailed a lot from about March to August. I think part of it was the workload from taking classes and teaching a full load across two campuses. But another part of it was that I spent mid-to-late part of the […]
04/10/2021 10:53 PM
The more I’ve composed, and the more I’ve taught music, the more I realize that there’s just so much interesting stuff out there to learn, a lot of which intersects with music composition. Psychology of creativity, business administration, critical theory, aesthetics, higher education administration–these are all things that sound terribly interesting. Cassie’s work at NDSU […]
01/26/2021 10:38 PM
When I first built Liszt, it required (logically) that users have a username and password. Well, more correctly, it required that I have a username and password, since I was the only one using it. As it grew and I got better at programming, I kept slightly upgrading the credential process and permissions system–the last […]
