by Jeannette Fang | Aug 14, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, new music education, summer 2017
Every summer at Garth Newel’s there’s a keyboard weekend. It a tradition that started before my hire, and it involves 3 pianists descending onto Garth Newel to join me and give the term “piano quartet” a whole new meaning. You might imagine...
by Jeannette Fang | Aug 7, 2017 | about the music, Composers, Composition Competition, GNPQ Blog, interviews, summer 2017
This summer is shaping up to be one full of visits from the composers of programmed pieces. This is significant because we live in a time where this doesn’t actually happen very often. Most people don’t realize how much of a treat it is to actually put a...
by Jeannette Fang | May 22, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, spring 2017
Walter Willson Cobbett may not have composed symphonies or even picked up an instrument as a child, but his influence in the world of chamber music is so far-reaching that it is felt more than a century later at Garth Newel. I suppose anyone with a lot of money has...
by Jeannette Fang | Apr 9, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, spring 2017
The hardest thing to put into words is the feelings you’ve forgotten about that only surface when listening to music. Clouded with the dust of the everyday mechanics, your brain doesn’t compute it when it hits you. So it comes to you with a roil, drifts away in...
by agilemarketing | Feb 20, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, new music education
Piano Quartet by Mark Carlson: Composer, Teacher, Performer and Music Lover When I was a sophomore at UCLA and struggling with, among many things, the anxiety that comes with trying to decide if a career as a musician suited me and was even possible, Professor...
by Jeannette Fang | Jan 22, 2017 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, new music education
by Jeannette Fang It was on Valentine’s Day of last year that Steven Stucky passed away. Brain cancer, they reported. “Steven Stucky, Composer Who Won a Pulitzer, Dies at 66” was the boiled down headline of the NYT, where his numerous life’s...
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