Jennifer Higdon’s article Caged Heat at New Music Box is the frankest admission and most thoughtful self-analysis I’ve ever seen of why an Uptown composer doesn’t like (some) Downtown music. I wish more of them would be so forthcoming, rather than just eternally pretend that it’s all a matter of quality.

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Thanks a lot Doug; I'll definitely give them a try.Doug Skinner on Fitting Homage
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Kyle, virtualization is your friend here. I made the jump from Windows to Mac a year or so ago. ...Ian Stewart on End of the World 7.0
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Hi Kyle, I've run Macs since 1985; will email you privately. But it's somewhere between what the Windoze fanboys and the...