21. Kyle Pederson, Part 1: How To Write What You Know...And What You Don't

Award winning choral composer Kyle Pederson is on the podcast this week in the first of a two-part interview! This week's episode focuses on the compositional process, how to get started, and the most challenging part of being a composer: writing authentically outside your own experiences. In this episode, Kyle references three amazing blog posts by Kurt Knecht which you can read in the links below: Cultural Appropriation in Music 1: BorrowingCultural Appropriation in Music 2: KnowledgeCultural Appropriation in Music 3: Influences --- Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠sellingsheetmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers. Subscribe to Garrett Breeze on ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ for video versions of the podcast. --- Give your choir the gift of new music this Christmas from ⁠⁠holidaychoirmusic.com⁠⁠!

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