The last time I wrote about Indian music, I described how Indian musicians create melody and improvise on it. Indian music is improvised, both melody and rhythm. For a composer like me, who writes everything, even the smallest detail, abandoning decades of excruciating non-improvising, is a huge step. My goal for the Gayatri Mantra, the song I’m writing […]
I just love being on the MusicSpoke team. All the composers and staff are so supportive of each other. I feel so lucky! Today, I’m on their blog entry, Meet the Composer. Read about it right here. http://hear.musicspoke.com/blog/meet-the-composer-mona-lyn-reese Last month, one of my pieces was Score of the Week, Stay with Me, God, is probably […]
Rainn Wilson has provided this quote from his upcoming memoir, The Bassoon King. The bassoon is ridiculous. They should be banned for being horrible, unnecessary and adenoidally grating. It takes like an hour to assemble one. They’re enormous. It’s like they’re made out of Lincoln logs, aluminum twigs and paper towel tubes. There are these […]
