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November 2018

11-09-2018
At 80, Bard Professor Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes “in the Risks”
When the composer Joan Tower went to Bennington College to study music, her teachers told her she needed to compose something.

“So I wrote a piece,” she recalled recently, laughing, “and it was a disaster from beginning to end. I said, ‘I know I can do better than that.’ So I did that for the next 40 years, trying to create a piece that wasn’t a disaster.”

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Credit: Photo: Lauren Lancaster for the New York Times
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-09-2018
Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts, talks with the New York Times about her more than 50-year career as a composer and educator, and the milestone of turning 80 this fall.
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Credit: Photo: Lauren Lancaster for the New York Times
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Conservatory of Music,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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