podcast 7-Andrew Greenwald

Andrew is a composer studying and teaching at Stanford. He is also one of the resident composers of Ensemble Pamplemousse. You can check out his music at http://www.andrewgreenwald.netIn our conversation we talk about many topics including the movie A Serious Man and a book called Foreskin’s Lament, but a good chunk of the conversation is about the importance composers place on the musical document and the purpose of complexity in Andrew’s music. So if you want to see what we‘re talking about you can download a score with this post or go to http://www.andrewgreenwald.net/scores/strquartet5compressed.pdf

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Composer Conversations is an outlet where composers can discuss their experiences living and working in the contemporary music world, the effect it has on their approach to music making, and hopefully in the process break down some of the mythology about what a composer is.