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November 2018
11-09-2018
Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts, talks with the New York Times about her more than 50-year career as a composer and educator, and the milestone of turning 80 this fall.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-09-2018
When the composer Joan Tower went to Bennington College to study music, her teachers told her she needed to compose something.
“So I wrote a piece,” she recalled recently, laughing, “and it was a disaster from beginning to end. I said, ‘I know I can do better than that.’ So I did that for the next 40 years, trying to create a piece that wasn’t a disaster.”
Read the full article from the New York Times
“So I wrote a piece,” she recalled recently, laughing, “and it was a disaster from beginning to end. I said, ‘I know I can do better than that.’ So I did that for the next 40 years, trying to create a piece that wasn’t a disaster.”
Read the full article from the New York Times
Credit: Photo: Lauren Lancaster for the New York Times
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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