My latest piece for the Seattle Times (in the Sunday edition) has now been posted online:
What drives a composer to write music — especially for a group as complex as a symphony orchestra?
The Romantic era has conditioned us to look for the answer in lofty concepts like “self-expression” and “genius.” But that represents only one variable in an intricate equation.
Filed under: commissions, Ludovic Morlot, new music, Seattle Symphony
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 