I’ve done a few features for the site, including some of the interviews w composers, incl Gabriel Kahane (pictured) The state of commissioning in the 21st century is so varied and confusing that even established composers have trouble describing it: to some it\u2019s the best of times, to others, much more trying. The year 2014 shows how transitional the current situation is. The Pulitzer-winning composition, John Luther Adams\u2019s Become Ocean<\/em>, came into being the old-fashioned way, through a commission by the Seattle Symphony. However, the classical Grammy Awards were dominated by a series of songs by Maria Schneider, Winter Morning Walks<\/em>, which was not commissioned by an august organization but crowd-funded on the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Please check out this great new site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [contextly_auto_sidebar id=”9QYXBUzJHimvnKsbZ6oLELXVvjWIavAs”] OVER the last few years I’ve been diving into the breakdown of the old 20th century creative economy and assessing as best I can the crisis we’re in now. But I’ve also been asking myself — and everybody I know — how we might move forward. Part of the answer comes from work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[624,693,54,596],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-disruption","7":"category-21st-c-musician","8":"category-classical-music","9":"category-culture-crash-the-book","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kahane_in_recording_studio.jpeg\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kahane_in_recording_studio.jpeg.jpeg\")
<\/a>. The most wide-ranging is a story<\/a> on contemporary models for commissioning new music. I start the piece off this way:<\/p>\n