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We’re thrilled to have had composer Marisa Ewing with us this week as part of our Composer Portraits series! If you missed any of it, check out the #marisaewing tag at Musica in Extenso, and make sure to read her interview with our editor-in-chief.

You can keep up with her beautiful experimental ambient work (and hear more of it) at her soundcloud, or by following her here on Tumblr as @the-sassy-composer. She’s also got a YouTube channel to which you can subscribe.

Thanks, Marisa, for being with us this week! - Melinda Beasi

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@composers who see this

what types of projects are y’all working on?

i’m currently drafting a postmodern, polystylistic symphony with my minimal knowledge of music theory (hoping to finish the draft by the end of the year, and then finish the orchestration by the time i graduate high school in may)

also if any of you have anything for solo violin, i’d like to read it (and if it isn’t completely unidiomatic like ferneyhough, i might record it for you <3)

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Thanks again, Richard Blaquière!

In the chaos of the fall teaching season, I confess that I initially did not pay much attention to this month’s Composer Portraits series (except to note that it gave me most of the week off). Imagine my surprise and delight when I realized that the subject of the series would be Richard Blaquière (@you-had-me-at-e-flat-major), whose music had charmed me so back in June of this year.

It’s been an enjoyable week, indeed. I especially enjoyed the nature-inspired Hamacs, which I admit I’ve played multiple times over the past couple of days. I was also impressed by the ambition and scope of the structurally complex Three Images of Norway, though this piece understandably suffers much more from the lack of live instruments. Here, I must renew my hope that Mr. Blaquière finds himself with the opportunity to have his work performed live, as this is what would truly bring the piece to life in a way that might match what he hears in his own head. If only we could be privy to those imaginings as well! Perhaps the only piece I was not quite as fond of was the art song, The Ecstasy. Though this may also suffer in its MIDI form, the music feels a bit out of step with Donne’s Elizabethan sensibilities, which, though certainly unconventional in his time, are rendered almost too overtly passionate here. Born in another time, Donne might certainly have appreciated the late-romantic feel of this sweeping ode to love, but, to my ears, the language itself rings false in Blaquière’s tumultuous, swelling, Rachmaninoff-like setting. That said, I’d again love to hear this performed live to get a real sense of the composer’s intent and feeling for the text.

In some ways, though, the highlight of this weeks’ portrait was Richard’s somewhat bitter final post, discussing the devaluation of older musical conventions among those who are training and mentoring today’s young composers, because it’s very much on the same page as my own rant on this subject, which I posted as part of my review of his work back in June. To this, I’d like to say, as part of today’s listening audience, keep on keeping on, Richard Blaquière! Yours is the kind of composition that might keep contemporary music from falling entirely into the elitist abyss. And thanks so much for joining us here again at Musica in Extenso! We continue to be fans of your work. - Melinda Beasi

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Classical music has been around for 800 years but it isn’t over, or stuck in the past – it’s constantly evolving. Our BBC Young Composer section lets you hear what young composers are writing today.

BBC Young Composer exists to celebrate and nurture new music and the creativity of young people across the UK. The scheme aims to discover, nurture and showcase the next generation of composers, offering 12-18 year-olds the chance to develop their skills, work with professionals and get their music heard on BBC Sounds. Find out more.

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We’re so happy to have hosted the work of our resident guest composer Eric L. Scott this week as part of our Composer Portraits series! If you missed any of it, check out this tag at Musica in Extenso

Certainly Eric will be back with us again in the future, but for now you can keep up with all his work at his soundcloud. Tumblr page: @musicalcompositions--eric--scott

Thanks, Eric, for letting us share your music this week! - Melinda Beasi