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Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn
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"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
This blog is a window into my creative process and philosophies as a composer and instrumentalist. At times it may contain music, photos, and poetry as well. May you enjoy, return, and benefit!   My Archives  September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009
Sculpture for Soto
Waltz for Chad Brown Why keep composing? "portrait analogy cont." Summer 2009 concerto special inspiration The Drunken Bishop Shaghall Choices in composing Choices in life Standards May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 |
Just like composing a piece of music is for me like drawing a portrait of a person, giving a manuscript to a musician is like sitting for a portrait. Sometimes what a musician creates does or does not look like me, depending on the artistic level of the musician or musical ensemble.
The audience doesn't always know that! I've had to jump through a few emotional and psychological hurdles to allow musicians who shall we say "don't draw well" draw my portrait even though the result doesn't look like me! It is clearly, their own limited interpretation! It is often most revealing to me to get to know a person by hearing him/her play my music. Since I know what is me, everything else I hear is him/her/them! One thing I love most in life is to hear the same piece of music performed and or recorded by many different players. Inevitably, I hear more in the piece and love to hear more in the musician. That said, I remember pulling off to the side of the road while being absolutely spell bound and swept off my feet by a performance of Stravinski's "The Rite of Spring". I had turned on my car radio and began hearing the most savage, hair raising, primal recording. Turned out that Stravinski himself was conducting the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. I bet Lois Wann was playing in that recording! Anyway. After having heard that piece so many times before, it was the first time that I managed to hear much more contrapuntal aspects of the piece clearly, with a stark precision, and primal determination. Awesome! Musically yours, Kathryn |
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