Author: KaleidoMusArt

Louis Wayne Ballard

“It is not enough to acknowledge that American Indian music is different from other music and that the Indian, somehow, ‘marches to a different drum,’ as a way of paying…
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Roque Cordero

“Roque Cordero remains to this day the premier composer of art music from his native Panama, known for his trademark synthesis of high-modernist techniques with the rhythms of folkloric dance.”…
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Chou Wen-Chung

“One must search beyond the procedures of a musical practice, discern its original aesthetic commitments, and trace how its tradition has evolved. If one is blessed with a cross-cultural heritage,…
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Talib Rasul Hakim

Today’s Spotlight is on the American composer and poet Talib Rasul Hakim (1940 -1988). Hailed as “a composer of great originality,” possessing a “unique ability to evoke philosophic contemplation from…
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