Posts Related to: Carol Reynolds

At the end of my last post, I referred to recent compositions that strike the “right tension” between composer and listener. Let’s pick up that theme.
 
Tension. We tend to think of tension as negative: a tension headache, or too much tension at work. Quite the contrary. Tension is a positive element in life. Think of the chick pecking open its …

Frequently, and justifiably, thoughtful people bemoan the way “classical music” left its audience behind in the 20th century. This post was, in fact, spurred by just such a comment on one of my previous posts.
This person and others with similar complaints are referring to the gulf between composer and listener caused by waves of abstract and dissonant …

Classical Music. Ah, hah! There’s a label that causes trouble. What does it mean?  Most people would answer “the music of Mozart and Beethoven, Bach and Brahms…those ‘classical’ guys.” But what does that mean?
 
Those guys wouldn’t know what to do with the label “Classical Music.” They couldn’t have envisioned their music still being around centuries into the future.
Immortality? That was …

“How do we bring Classical Music to a wider audience?” How many times have you heard that question? If there were a magic answer, music executives would have struggled their way to it long ago. Instead, CEOs of orchestras and opera companies, critics, performers, and concerned lovers of music stand around, shaking their heads, as if examining …