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Friend and former String Theory client Paul Gambill wrote from his new home in Vermont to share a new report he wrote for New Music Box about the experience of performing a work he commissioned by NC composer J. Mark Scearce. It's all too easy to blow past that verb 'commissioned,' but folks in a world that treats composers of serious new music with about as much reverence and wealth as school bus drivers, this is a blessed thing. Without composers like Scearce and music directors like Paul, classical music would sit fixed in time, unable to speak to OUR time. Paul founded and ran the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (it became Orchestra Nashville in recent years) and in so doing brought amazing and inventive musical ideas to Music City - stuff nobody else had the courage or depth to try. Nice to see he's landed a music director post in a place he loves. And he still comes back to conduct for the Nashville Ballet. Good on ya Paul.
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