you of all things by Jodie Landau and wild Up ‘You’re The Choice I Make’ Let me offer you some artful goosebumps. This is a man at 23 speaking to you about what happens when he sings his music: All of my pieces are from the “I” perspective sung to “you.” And while it is… Read More
#MusicForWriters: Anna Thorvaldsdottir, A Light Air Of Restraint
‘To Perform The Audio Visually’ As you’ll know if you’ve been following our Music for Writers series here at Thought Catalog, we seem to be in a golden era of new composition in contemporary classical music. And while New York City is generally recognized as the world center of this robust moment in musical development,… Read More
#MusicForWriters: Paola Prestini’s Songs From Another ‘Labyrinth’
‘You Can Free Yourself’ I wanted to write these two large-scale, deeply virtuosic pieces for these two muses, but I hadn’t had a chance to create a large-scale work like that yet. That comment may surprise regular #MusicForWriters readers who rememberour December article on the composer Paola Prestini and her Oceanic Verses. A complex work of… Read More