“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…
“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.”…
“The role of any artist is to reinterpret human existence by means of the conscious transformation of his experience. He does this by ordering the media that he has chosen…
“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,…
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…
