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Thanks, Nate, for linking to that detailed obituary.
Peter Westergaard was both my first theory teacher and my first composition teacher, and so was a major figure in my musical life. I came to college with little more than fundamentals: Peter's cou…
Thanks, Daniel, for this eloquent tribute. For those with an iPad (I am not sure whether it is currently available for other platforms) you might enjoy playing around with the rich variety of Wilson designs available via the Wilsonic app; this allo…
Hello David,
I don't know whether there is any "spinning" explicitly associated with it, but your post immediately brought the Scherzo from Bruckner's Third Symphony to mind.
Anton
You may already have in mind Paul Lanksy's Six Fantasies on a Poem of Thomas Campion; exploring the "spectrum" between speech and song, Lansky notes that "Each of the Fantasies attempts to musically transform a single reading by Hannah MacKay of a w…