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	<title>Musico-Musico</title>
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	<description>Thoughts from a Musician (who happens to be a Composer)</description>
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		<title>Questions for Composers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Christian Asplund recently handed a questionnaire to composers at Brigham Young University (students and faculty at all levels).  Here are the questions, with my responses.]]></description>
		<link>http://neilthornock.net/composerblog/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Loving Babbitt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long ago (maybe not that long ago, but nearly half my life&#8230;) I learned that if music doesn&#8217;t speak to me, the problem may be mine and not the composer&#8217;s. My first real experience with this was Schoenberg&#8217;s Variations on a Recitative for organ &#8211; a work I was certain nobody could love. And yet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilthornock.net/composerblog/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Composer Highs and Lows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's tough being a composer, sometimes.

Often a student will approach me after a reading of one of their pieces, disappointed that their piece didn't quite work out as well as they would have hoped. Sometimes they blame the lack of rehearsal time, or the performers. Occasionally they request another shot at the reading to get a good recording. Usually they just feel bummed that their brilliant work didn't get to shine like they hoped.

Get used to it.]]></description>
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