Composer Spotlight

Louis Wayne Ballard

Posted on January 25, 2021January 26, 2021 by KaleidoMusArt by KaleidoMusArt

“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

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by KaleidoMusArt by KaleidoMusArt

“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.”…

Olly Wilson

Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 by KaleidoMusArt by KaleidoMusArt

“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…

Chou Wen-Chung

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 by KaleidoMusArt by KaleidoMusArt

“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,…

Talib Rasul Hakim

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 by KaleidoMusArt by KaleidoMusArt

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…