Another blog?

Yes. Another blog.

Another composer blog? Another composer trying to drum up business?

I admit it. After all, there is a link to my composerly website right here. Perhaps you stumbled across this blog, but now that you are here you might amble over to the audio clips or score excerpts at jamesprimosch.com. But in addition to trying to entice you to sample my compositional wares, perhaps I can also make a modest contribution to the conversations about this marginalized, nameless, but vibrant thing - contemporary music, new music, alt-classical, non-pop, concert music, modern classical.

I haven’t been reading the New York Review of Book for a while, but when I did, it was exceedingly rare to see a living composer mentioned in its pages, and certainly none under the age of 70 or so.  Take that as symbolic of the place of this music in the culture, and you can see why even a few comments by a writer who should probably stick to quarters and eighths instead of nouns and adjectives are still worth a try.