Youth Orchestra of Prince William
February 10, 2012
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I don’t think the issue is new music, I think the issue is the new music we’re used to hearing. I think there are two good ways to oparapch this, one of them being what the orchestra already does. I like that most of the concerts I go to have a good opener, a classic closer, and then either a concerto featuring an artist I may not know of or a new piece of music. I would, however, not be opposed to a concert featuring mostly new works. That is, depending on the music. So many of us tire of the idea of new music because a 20 minute work of aleatoric or atonal music can be rather painful to sit through. (I know my fiancee will strongly disagree with me, but listening to Skrowaczewski’s flute concerto (again) does not make the top 1,000 I want to do on a Friday night. In fact, it clocks in at 1,347 just under changing a tire in the middle of a December snowstorm (#1,346)All kidding aside, bring on the American composers! Bring on the likes of Michael Torke, Alex Shipirro (whose ElctroAcoustic pieces for Wind Band are gorgeous!), or Joseph Curiale. Show us that new-American music can be exhilarating and fresh, and beautiful and lush, as well as different and artistic.