Steven Ricks' Music

Steve Ricks composes meticulously shaped gestures and colors them in prisms of light. His music can be "dense" but it never sounds "thick;" rather it has a translucence that is constantly changing; flickering.  Rick's music can also be fun, which is in short supply in much contemporary music.  Click on his name above to go to his website and experience his sound world. I think you will find it fascinating.

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Music as Art

As the place for art music diminishes in our lives, so does its importance and its ability to enhance and enrich.  Newspaper "Arts" sections are replaced by "Entertainment" sections; classical music never makes the Evening News, unless perhaps somebody is stabbed at a concert; and not one person in a hundred can name a living American composer under 50.

That there are numerous gifted and interesting composers under 50 (under 30, too) and why they persist against all odds in offering their sonic expressions to an unwilling, uninterested and uneducated public is the theme of this blog.

Perhaps if we would listen often to interesting and even challenging musics, we could begin to hear.  We'll see.

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