Comments for Aaron Gervais, composer

Comment on Review: sfSound’s Small Packages: Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto and lots and lots of Shorter Works by Small Packages #2: Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto - 0

Small Packages #2: Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto - 0 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:28:47 +0000

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Comment on Review: sfSound’s Small Packages: Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto and lots and lots of Shorter Works by SFSound - 0

SFSound - 0 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:02 +0000

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Comment on Economics vs. Art: Why a good fit has never existed by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:41:19 +0000

Hi Aaron,
Did you write this article? It is excellent! Can Claire quote you? She is researching this issue this very week for her IB Exhibition project. It is VERY timely. Thanks for letting us know.
Lisa

Comment on Review: George Benjamin’s Duet with the San Francisco Symphony by S K

S K — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:50:23 +0000

A beautiful analysis.

Comment on Review: George Benjamin’s Duet with the San Francisco Symphony by Ben Sabey

Ben Sabey — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:26:04 +0000

Hi Aaron. Nice job. I totally agree.

Comment on Lend Me Your Ears by Lisa Bielawa

Lisa Bielawa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:32:06 +0000

just wanted to say thanks for your kind words about my wqxr blog. you have always totally understood where i was coming from re advocacy, so nice to know that there are a growing number of us out there who are simpatico!

Comment on Dudamel, Glitz—and the importance of asking the right question by Zohreh

Zohreh — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:30:41 +0000

Bizarre que tu mentionne jason caslor — il m’a dirigé ici a umanitoba pendant 2 ans.

Comment on Dilettante Digital Composer-in-Residence Competition by Aaron Gervais

Aaron Gervais — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:56:47 +0000

ClassicalTV.com has an interview with the three contestants, including myself. It's interesting to see what each of us had to say in response to the same questions.

Comment on Is sleeping through a concert bad? by Ian Power

Ian Power — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:20:03 +0000

I really like this.

Comment on The Fallacy of the Classics-of-the-Future Argument by Vincert Bergeron

Vincert Bergeron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:25:03 +0000

I agree in part. So many things get passed by today because it is now so easy to get access to new music that listeners are getting much lazier. Unique music is not priority for most. Originality is third importance in most listeners minds, but they won’t admit it. Electroacoustic music contests are a good example of that. Teachers are looking for good boys who want to imitate their own sound. In popular culture, instant gratification is more and more the attitude to adopt it seems. I can’t possiblity get into that i-pod lifestyle after having composed my four albums of dense songs ; in my case, my own music changed me I think because I use to listen to new music on a very lighting flash way. About popularity, Schoenberg was quiet laughed at too. What about Charles Ives ? In the rock world, Velvet Underground didn’t make it in the popular culture before..Nirvana ? Now, we can hear Sister Ray in a Museum (Contemporary Museum of art). Even a recent noise band (Black Dice) is mentionned. Perhaps, this is time to do something else than noise music (following the Velvet logic). In that sense, new music full of colorful and energic (in terms of dynamics, not drones) ideas would be a change from the now expected full nihilism.