21CM - creating the 21st Century Musician

2015
The Composer’s Way

January 2015

Iconic composers Derek Bermel, Gabriel Kahane, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky, and Augusta Read Thomas talked with 21CM about their creative process, the glorious advantages and limitations of technology, and how being a composer has changed with the times, and remarkably stayed the same.

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State of the Art Form

Edward Yim, New York Philharmonic

January 2015

Ed Yim is one of the rare classical music executives who has worked on both sides of the fence, so to speak, as both arts administrator and artist manager.

State of the Art Form

2015
New Models: The State of Music Commissioning

Scott Timberg · January 2015

The state of commissioning in the 21st century is so varied and confusing that even established composers have trouble describing it: to some it’s the best of times, to others, much more trying.

“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.”

— Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Artist Features

2015
An Interview with Caroline Shaw

Mark McCoy · January 2015

Caroline Shaw was virtually unknown as a composer before she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices. Some knew her as a vocalist with the Grammy award-winning Roomful of Teeth, for whom she wrote Partita, others knew her as a violinist, performing with everyone from The Roots on The Tonight Show to the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble.