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Articles and Commentary by Jeffery CottonThis is a list of essays and commentaries by Jeffery Cotton. Some of these were written by request, others are expanded versions of program notes, other simply rants. You might also want to check out Jeffery's blog, The Camargo Diary.
Composers must start speaking out about ill treatment by our colleagues. Here's a way to start.>>>
Sibelius or Finale? If you care about what comes out of your printer at the end of the day, no contest.>>>
So... Do you come here often? or: All the wrong ways to get young people into classical music concerts.>>>
In the face of our cultural irrelevance as artists, how do we do our work?>>>
German composers reject the dictatorship of history in favor of the dictatorship of Theodor Adorno. Will they ever get free of “formless expression”?>>> Hier clicken für die deutsche Übersetzung.
From time to time young composers ask me for advice about career. How does one succeed in this business? I say build a musical life, and let the career take care of itself...>>>
An article I wrote that also serves as the program notes to my Suite from Pyramus and Thisbe. In it I discuss living in Berlin during the German Reunification, and my thoughts on Ovid's tortured myth about tortured lovers.>>> Hier clicken für die deutsche Übersetzung.
The MacDowell Colony, an artists' retreat in Peterborough, NH, asked me to write a brief essay for their newsletter regarding the arts in the post 9/11 world.>>> |
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