HOW IT HAPPENED (SAID JOHN CAGE): A MOMENT OF SILENCE
(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 20, 2018) A couple of years ago as a New Year’s resolution I decided to take the...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Feb 11, 2018
- 3 min
A THOUSAND THOUGHTS
(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 12, 2018) A few weeks ago, I saw an advert online that mentioned the Kronos Quartet...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Feb 4, 2018
- 4 min
ALL THE RAGE: WHEN IS MUSIC A POLITICAL ACTION
(Originaly posted on nmbx.newmusicusa.org on February 5, 2018) There was a brief time in my life when I no longer wanted to be a...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Aug 21, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #97
Here is another one. Are you guys saying you don’t want a twenty-four hour sound installation that stretches sounds and music from Final...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Aug 14, 2016
- 1 min
Interlochen 2016 Scrapbook
I am finally back from the Land of the Stately Pines, and so it is time to post some photos from my teaching travels. If you would like...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Aug 1, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #96 Part IV
So it happened. I first received an email. I posted the live link on Facebook. I lost. And then I had pie. I wasn’t the only one watching...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 31, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #95
No, this is not what you think this is. While I have been waiting for the Symphony Number One competition results, I have received two...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 24, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #95/Composer WIN #16 Part III
Well well well. Here we are again. It turns out I made the first round. I was also reminded they would be announcing finalists soon. I...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 18, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #95/Composer WIN #16 Part II
To recap: Symphony Number One has a comp comp, and I made the first round. There’s more. Now. Because I am a performance whore (and this...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 17, 2016
- 1 min
Composer FAIL #95/Composer WIN #16 Part I
A few weeks ago I decided to enter Symphony Number One’sCall for Scores 3 composition competition. I’ve noticed I’ve received a series of...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 15, 2016
- 1 min
This Will Be Our Reply to Violence
I don’t know about you, but the news coverage of recent local, state, national, and international events have been cripplingly bleak....
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jul 10, 2016
- 1 min
Lexical Tones Interview with Rob McClure
Recently I had an interview with Rob McClure, composer and now podcast host of Lexical Tones by ADJ*ective New Music. Considering we’ve...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Jun 25, 2016
- 1 min
composer FAIL #94
First composer cat submission from Alex Shapiro. I was in NYC this past week attending a workshop for the Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project...
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Jennifer Jolley
- May 28, 2016
- 1 min
the music publishing podcast
My semester ended on Mother's Day, and while I should be writing (and always be writing), a couple of monumental things have happened in...
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Jennifer Jolley
- May 21, 2016
- 1 min
composer FAIL #93
So I am serious about having you guys send me your composer cat pictures. You can email me via my website. Or send me a PM. Due to my...
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Jennifer Jolley
- May 14, 2016
- 1 min
composer FAIL #92
Guys! Send me your cat pictures. I am serious. Guys. I am so close to a hundred FAILs and this is actually exciting. What should I do to...
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Jennifer Jolley
- May 7, 2016
- 2 min
how to write for beginning band
That's my music on the stands! Tonight (and tomorrow, and the next day) the sixth grade kiddos at Mason Intermediate School under the...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Apr 30, 2016
- 1 min
composer FAIL #91 (and a call for composer cats?)
Susie Ling's composer cat Archer. (I wonder if I should have a call for pictures of composers' pets…) GUYS. I'm up to 91 of these...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Apr 23, 2016
- 1 min
composer FAIL #90
Thanks to my friend Hajnal Pivnick, these dudes (as part of the Face the Music) had two coachings with Kronos Quartet and two...
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Jennifer Jolley
- Apr 16, 2016
- 1 min
university of toledo scrapbook
So the University of Toledo had me over as their guest composer as part of their CoCA Unboxed 2016 Festival. To prove it, they created a...
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