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Creativity, Composing, and Confidence, with Sabrina Peña Young

What's the secret to becoming a composer? http://musl.ink/pod148 Today we have the pleasure of speaking with someone we’ve wanted to have on the show since day one, a long-time collaborator at Musical U and at Easy Ear Training before that, Sabrina Peña Young. Sabrina is an award-winning composer who created the first ever original fully-animated opera , Libertaria. We’ve long been in awe of the range and scale of projects Sabrina manages to take on and bring to success, and for the first time we got to sit down with her and actually dig into the question of how she manages to do all that she does. Sabrina is certainly someone who people would be quick to call “talented” or “gifted”, yet we knew from working with her that she had as little belief in the importance of natural talent as we do – so we were utterly curious to know: if it’s not talent, how does she do it all? In this conversation we talk about: - Sabrina’s musical upbringing and how helpful attention to deta...

3 Horrible Music Scores: Real Classical Composer Confession

3 Horrible Music Scores : Real Composer Confession I admit it, as a classical composer I have made some absolutely HORRIBLE music mistakes in my compositions. Some of them I can chalka up to being a student composer trying too hard to impress while knowing little of what makes actual sense to a performer, part of it probably was simply time constraint, and some of it, well, I guess it's just lack of sleep.  In any case, here are 3 Horribly REAL composer mistakes that I have made in my scores. 1. Music Lyrics Disaster I don't know what I was thinking, but clearly I had no idea how to really write out lyrics for this choral work that I wrote in college. Seriously? What IS this? Fre-sh? NOT! 2. Ugly Composer Manuscript My undergrad prof made us all write out our scores by hand, mainly to avoid too much dependence on computers to write our music for us. All the same, this is one UGLY manuscript. BTW, you can download this flute solo HERE:  http://imslp.o...

Free Sheet Music Download: Classical Music Flute Solo Airborn Sand by Composer Sabrina Pena Young

Free Sheet Music Download: Classical Music Flute Solo Airborn Sand by Composer Sabrina Pena Young FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD:  http://imslp.org/wiki/Airborn_Sand_(Young,_Sabrina_Pena) Originally composed during a hurricane in South Florida . Inspired by a news reporter 's comments about "Airborne sand " whipping through her hair, the composer decided to write a work for flute that imitated the movements of sand whirling on a beach during a hurricane. It was subsequently performed at the University of South Florida in Tampa . Flute Solo Related articles Friday Freebie: Old Rugged Cross The Landing - Science fiction Robot music - Sabrina Pena Young Music Marketing Secrets: How to Use Twitter, Youtube, Social Media - S P... Quiz: Which Classical Music Era Are You? Latest iTunes 12.5 Beta Should Please Classical Music Fans After Dark - Romanian Rhapsody concert at the Limerick City Gallery of Art Russian inspiration for Clandeboye Festival The Tran...

Free Sheet Music Download - Sacred Choral Creation Oratorio Classical Music

English: Oil on canvas (size: 90 x 150 cm) was shown for the first time at the Salon Art Sacré - Sacred art in 1989. Français : Huile sur toile (format: 90 x 150 cm) exposée pour la première fois au Salon Art Sacré en 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Download the prize-winning sacred Creation Oratorio by composer Sabrina Pena Young at the Petrucci Library. The Petrucci Library provides classical music enthusiasts with free online sheet music like string quartets, choral music , piano music, music for violin, and more. Most of the music is public domain or has Creative Commons licensing for performance. Enjoy an exhaustive list of classical sheet music at your fingertips at the Petrucci Library Classical music online. Perform the unique Creation Oratorio, a contemporary classical oratorio in three languages - Spanish, English, and Swahili .  DOWNLOAD THE CREATION ORATORIO NOW "Light" From the Creation Oratorio A complex multilingual intertwining of Afro-...

Top 10 Bizarre Reasons You are a Classical Music Elitist

PHOTO CREDIT: cdn-images How do you know if you or someone you know is a classical music elitist? Read on to find out! Someone you love might just have a serious classical music elitism! 1. You are a classical music  elitist  if you own boxes of classical music albums that you never play . How can you get rid of these recordings? Really? Such beautiful music going to waste? You don't care that you no longer have walking room in your house. What matters is that you have that one prized Mozart recording from 1943 that you will cherish forever. (Now if you could only find a record player!) 2. You are a classical music  elitist  if you can't wait for the latest release of Tchaikovsky's  Symphony #6 to add to your other 105 Symphony #6 mp3s. You can never have enough classical music. Multiple copies of Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and the rest of them is absolutely necessary to feed your classical music frenzy. Who cares ...

2 HOURS : Sad Violin and Piano - Relaxing Instrumental Music-

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