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Directed by Rome Prize-winner and composer/performer Derek Bermel, the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" is
the first series of workshops in the country designed to explore the world
of composing and orchestration for the younger musician. The series, now in
its fourth season, just completed eight monthly workshops held from November
2003 through June 2004 at ASCAP. The workshops explored compositional thinking
of a wide variety of leading modern composers, including Steve Reich, Meredith
Monk, Christopher Taylor, Michel Van der Aa and others, who discussed their
sense of orchestration, instrumentation and why they made the choices they
made in writing specific pieces of music.
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Derek Bermel, Christopher Taylor and ASCAP's Fran Richard. |
Michael Gordon, composer and co-founder of the Bang on the Can Festival, was also a featured guest speaker at the Making Score workshop. |
