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I mentioned I was bored and so the local ten-year-old typed "new composers of 2011" into google to help me. This led to an article in New York by Justin Davidson that I somehow missed:
Three recent, overlapping festivals—Ecstatic Music at Merkin Concert Hall, Tune-In at the Park Avenue Armory, and Tully Scope at Lincoln Center—offered a portrait of a new New York School, high on amped-up minimalism, percussion-heavy beats, shimmering textures, loops, drones, and washes of electronic color. These composers in their thirties worry less about categories, narrative, and originality than about atmosphere, energy, and sound.
This takes me back to Timothy Andres' It takes a long time to become a good composer, for piano. And in turn, here's an aworks post from 2004 where I noted Andres was to play the Ives' Concord Sonata and that he was born in Palo Alto.
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