When Politics is Music to Your Ears

A political composer sets the reconstruction amendments to music

_____ In an interview on NPR, shortly before the inauguration, Amanda Gorman said: “Everything is political. Especially art.” How true. In graduate school the same idea was drilled into my brain by Herbert Brün, brilliant composer, computer music pioneer, and one of my professors at the University of Illinois. I grew up ...
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When Politics is Music to Your Ears

Singing the Bill of Rights

Trump year 1

Everyone who has been in a chorus knows that if you sing a text you never forget it, at least on some level. In 2005 I set the Bill of Rights to music, hoping to make the youth of America, specifically high school students, more aware of this precious text ...
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