Pam Marshall's notes about composing music, teaching, improvising, music software, nature


Category: Music Business

Services and tools, mostly online, for furthering projects and raising funds

  • Electronic Musician – Why I’m dissatisfied

    There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the new Electronic Musician, recently merged with EQ magazine. The Profile section is many pages, covering musicians who I don’t know in styles I don’t listen to, and they’re almost all guys. I didn’t do a statistical survey, but in the October 2011 issue, there’s a…

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  • Marketing a new Choral Piece

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    New choral music for Christmas, arrangements of unusual Christmas songs, seems like an easy sell. Doesn’t every choral director need something fresh for the regular December concert?

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    Painting by Bouguereau showing angels playing music for the Virgin Mary
  • Rebirth of Spindrift Commissioning Guild

    I don’t seem to be able to write blog entries regularly. Either I’m hard at work at something else, or I’ve finished that something, which I could write about, but I’ve moved on. I’m going to try harder to capture some of what’s going on in my composing life more often. I’ve got improv classes…

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  • After the concert

    The concert for The Future of Life went beautifully. The chorus sounded great, the trombonist was superb. The rest of the program sounded fine too. I was moved by the text and I was pleased with the way the music, the sung and spoken words, and trombone declarations came together. Audience members, who were moved…

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