20 min

The dangerous "fetishization of new music‪"‬ Parlando: Musical Matters with Vivien Schweitzer

    • Performing Arts

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra composer-in-residence Tarik O'Regan and executive director Courtney Beck discuss the "fetishization of new music," Tarik's upcoming opera and Concerto for Oud, how to properly compensate and commission composers, and "the dirty truth" of why many composers prefer writing for period-instrument orchestras. "I think with this fetishization of new music, we've got into this rather needy thing. When you look at a lot of marketing around contem...

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra composer-in-residence Tarik O'Regan and executive director Courtney Beck discuss the "fetishization of new music," Tarik's upcoming opera and Concerto for Oud, how to properly compensate and commission composers, and "the dirty truth" of why many composers prefer writing for period-instrument orchestras. "I think with this fetishization of new music, we've got into this rather needy thing. When you look at a lot of marketing around contem...

20 min