Christopher Cerrone
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Composer. Faculty @mannescollege @thenewschool . These posts I have shored against my ruin.
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Thrilled to see IN A GROVE as one of
@nytimesmusic
's best classical albums of 2023! Thanks so much to Joshua Barone for his thoughtful writeup, and to
@metroensemble
and In a Circle records for supporting the project.
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I'm starting to genuinely suspect that something like 80% of professional musicians and/or academics genuinely do not actually like music.
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My lukewarm take this morning is that classical music needs to reckon with the fact that the computer has rendered virtuosity for its own sake uninteresting (if it ever was), and we should stop applauding people for playing things that are hard but have little musical value.
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I know this is crazy but like, maybe DONT create this environment at your school?
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@Tyler_A_Harper
@matthiasellis
The quotes calling me a "gringo" when
I'm literally part Italian? WTF.
By far the best part.
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It's 2020, can we formally drop the "violon" in violoncello?
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For the curious/bored: the putty activates the harmonic and the quarter adds enough weight to mute the fundamental
I like being in a group chat with my composer friends because I receive 90-second videos demonstrating what it sounds like when you stick a piece of putty to a piano string and then put a quarter on top of the putty
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Random thought: Wouldn't it make sense to have (at least) three music pulitzers: one for classical, one for popular music, and one for jazz? There's like 8 pulitzers for books, so why not? It would solve a lot of problems of judging such disparate art in one category.
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what happens when you type 'poco' about 400 times
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Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
And I really fucking mean nobody:
John Harbison: actually james levine was a consummate artist
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Can we just end the entire practice of recommendation letters. Like, what is the point beyond favoritism?
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A really good lesson from adjudicating composition competitions is that no one likes pieces where nothing happens in the first two minutes
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I'm sorry but "hip hop is good because it resembles Schoenberg" is a not a good take
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Man, enduring a year of pandemic and quarantine has been almost as unpleasant as sitting through an entire Bruckner symphony
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I just listened to Debussy for an hour and I am here to report that he is, in fact, Good at Music.
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COMPOSERS:
"premier": first in importance, order, or position; leading.
"premiere": the first performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a movie.
It's almost 2019, learn the difference.
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My 2020 platform includes mandatory minimum sentences for people who insist on placing accidentals on every note
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I have noticed that many pieces have some good parts and some bad parts. Has anyone considered writing a piece with only good parts?
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A strange thing about our field is that you can label an abstract musical composition with a title and it's assumed by everyone else, including scholars, that that composition is really "about" that subject.
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If composition teachers talked about rhythm, orchestration, and form nearly as often as they talk about harmony, contemporary music would be better.
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This might be my favorite page of piano music of all time.
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Proposing a 10% VAT tax on every time pianist "vibrates" on a key by wiggling their hands for absolutely no reason
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I have been thinking about this post for a few days, and it's not so much that it's wrong but rather, it's upsetting because it represents the appalling apotheosis of neoliberal thought invading, nay, dominating orchestral culture.
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Percussionists are the best people. Full stop. No irony.
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I think by far the dumbest aspect our field is how how composers always try to avoid sounding "cinematic" meanwhile the biggest compliment you can possibly get from a lay person is "I could see this in a movie!"
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I love how composer movies are like "I found inspiration by having sex on a sailing boat with Marisa Tomei" and I'm just sitting here hissing to myself saying "Should the pianist make this noise 8 or 9 times?"
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I feel like the
@DetroitSymphony
's oboe player is going to be thrilled about their exciting part in the first movement of my violin concerto
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It is actually so funny that this music exists and people take it seriously
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Trying to get myself kicked out of new music by writing I iv ii IV chord progressions for 3 minutes
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An insane thrill that my album, THE PIECES THAT FALL TO EARTH, was nominated for a GRAMMY.
@orionrountree
@WildUp
@soniferous
@Theo_Bleckmann
&
@newamrecords
are amazing collaborators. And honored to be nominated among such esteemed colleagues.
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Hiding inside every 30-minute piece is a much better 20-minute piece.
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Schenkerian analysis is the phrenology of music theory.
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It would be cool if Joe Biden supported the green new deal as much as mike pence seems to think he does
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Composers are arguing on the internet about atonality and program notes. Nature is healing.
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I tell you what I'm not looking forward to is a bunch of spatialized chamber orchestra pieces called 'social distancing' wait a minute that's kind of a good idea someone commission me send tweet
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Friends always say, "Why don't you write your musical opinions instead of ranting over text," so I finally did, at least 200 words.
My respectful disagreement with
@ethan_iverson
's take on Gershwin last week (since "X" hides news links).
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Dem candidates as new-music piano pieces:
Bernie: People United
Warren: Ligeti Etudes
Pete: Kapustin Concert Etudes
Biden: Carl Vine Piano Sonata
Klob: Ludus Tonalis
Yang: Buch Der Klange
Steyer: Ann Southam Simple Lines of Enquiry
Bloomberg: Sorabji Opus Clavicembalisticum
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I think I just got invited to apply to grad school ... at the school where I teach
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As this article correctly points out, I should never tweet, with the exception of when
@sethcolterwalls
writes such a thoughtful and wide-ranging article on my music. Honored to be profiled in such an in-depth way.
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Well, we saved New Sounds. Now all we need to do is impeach Trump and stop the encroaching climate crisis and I think we can call it a week.
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Me to my students: YOU MUST PLAN EVERY UPBOW AND DOWNBOW TO BE A REAL COMPOSER
Me in my music: eh, they'll figure it out
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Hellloo music lovers! The wonderful LAPhil has generously allowed me to share 5 minutes of my most recent composition, THE INSECTS BECAME MAGNETIC, scored for large orchestra and electronics. I'd love if you took a listen.
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Rip Louis Andriessen. So many great pieces but "De Staat" will always be my favorite. I have seen it a bunch of times but remember being fully transfixed at the
@bangonacan
marathon performance in 2017 with Tim Weiss and the Oberlin New Music Ensemble
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Most of my daily life seems to entail either tricking myself into composing by avoiding sending emails or tricking myself into sending emails by avoiding composing.
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Does anyone else have the problem trying to listen to one part of the Rite of Spring, but then 30 minutes later you realized you listened to the whole thing?
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"What is something a graduate of Yale University has never said?"
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Bringing my gigantic A2 size score of Atmosphères to the
@nyphil
tonight in an attempt to block the view of a maximum number of people around me
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Celebrating the Bernstein centenary by slowing down all the recordings of my music by 20%
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Don’t you love that feeling when you come up with the perfect ending for a piece...
...9 months after the premiere.
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one of the more bonkers things about bass clarinet notation is that this is "correct"
Heads up composers: bass clarinets like to use treble clef despite the name.
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Attn: Music Theory Twitter have we got a paper for you
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Super excited!!
We are pleased to announce the appointments of
@chriscerrone
and
#KamalaSankaram
to our composition faculty, chaired by
@davidtlittle
! 🎉
Welcome, Chris and Kamala!
Read the full announcements here >>
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All good composers have at least once piece about trains
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ChatGPT, please write meaningless and pretentious musicology prose
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I was identified as "one of those Twitter Composers" after my talk at UT Austin on Monday and I can't decide if that means I should double down or quit.
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My latest composition for solo bassoon interrogates the liminal space between chopped cheese and philly cheese steaks in new york city bogedas and the attendant sociopolitical ramifications
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Hi, one of those 54 composers here. I'm on a program with Poulenc and Saint-Saëns. I think they'll be fine.
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at my obsession with practicality. But at the same time, the way Sam talks, his straight-up hostility here is so endemic to the 'hazing' culture that is too dominant in the orchestral world, and it's a top-down problem—frankly, this shit is bullying, and leaders shouldn't...
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I am truly in awe of this newspaper’s ability to find the least flattering pic of me of all time by screenshotting a pixelated YouTube video from 4 years ago
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Me, listening to a recording of my new piece, sober: "Hey, this is pretty good."
Me, after one whiskey listening to the same piece: "Oh my God, I'm the worst composer in the world."
Me, after *two* whiskeys listening to the same piece: "Hey, this is pretty good."
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I think about that
@mattyglesias
post to the effect of "do orchestra conductors actually do anything?" about once a week and laugh to myself.
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So excited for this! "THE ARCHING PATH" is nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY for Best Classical Compendium! Such an amazing team we have:
@timoandres
@ianrosenbaum
@johnnyg2703
@linzkesselman
@mingzhewang
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Me: did you study sonata form?
Wife: I did it’s like blah blah blah, recapitulation
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Now that we've bent the curve on COVID-19, it's time to bend the curve on scratch tone usage in new music
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Boris Johnson couldn't do it; Rishi Sunak couldn't do it; only I could unite the British people (against me)
It is actually so funny that this music exists and people take it seriously
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@RossBarkan
Almost everyone I know who can afford to buy in the five boroughs are people who are working with a lot of inherited wealth.
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Thinking about how influential Olly Knussen's orchestral style was on both American and British composers. This is maybe the most influential 90 seconds of music I can think of.
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Composers are treated not as humans but as businesses—publishers, artists, and editors; it's a nearly impossible goal and one that demands a maximally homogenized product. It's drilled into our heads to never take a risk.
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My final comment re: Discourse: Last night I saw a performance of R. Schumann's Piano 4tet wherein the cellist has to retune their C string mid-performance down to B-flat. This is a crazier ask than most contemporary rep. Composers now just want the benefit of the doubt RS gets.
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Requiring print scores for competitions and grants in 2019 feels very suspect both environmentally and also as an inequality multiplier
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brb starting a rumor that Charles Wuorinen is writing an opera called "sksksk and i oop" about VSCO girls as a sequel to Brokeback Mountain
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Adding a series of harp harmonics to this orchestral piece that no one will ever hear to boost my avant-garde credentials
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In my experience as both a teacher and composer, composers are actually terrified of wasting orchestral musicians' time. We are fully aware of the rarity of an orchestral commission or performance and want to make the most of it. I've had arts admins and conductors laugh...
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