Composer and educator Eddie Jacobs discusses his innovative NewMusic Initiative to help students learn the value and process of commissioning new music.
Topics discussed on this episode:
- NewMusic Initiative
- Commissioning Program
- Helping students know & understand the commissioning process
- Formalizing the problem
- The role music educators in commissioning
- Music pedagogy vs art pedagogy
- Replicating the NewMusic Initiative
- Getting students listening & daydreaming
- Rob Deemer’s Women Composer’s Database
- Alex Shapiro & Martha Mooke’s website
- Reaching out to composers
- Being a student
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This episode was edited by E.J. Sadler at Studio184.