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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: How to win composing
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Monday, February 11, 2013. How to win composing. One of the main reasons we all became composers is the thrill of competition. The hunt, the chase, the adrenaline rush, the sport of it all! The vibrant beauty of young lads, in the prime of youth, competing for the glory of being the best. We are lucky in that we have such a well formed and established competition circuit for the young composer to earn his chops on. Well being such an objective proce...
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: Everybody cover Radiohead. Go!
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Saturday, July 2, 2011. Everybody cover Radiohead. Go! Maybe you are a hip young classical music group feeling down in the dumps about your number of YouTube hits. Or maybe you're feeling insecure about your street cred since that skinny-jeans and elvis-costello-glasses wearing singer/songwriter. Keeps stealing your lunch money. Well, did you know there's a sure-fire way to prop up your sense of cultural relevance? In New York put Johnny Greenwood.
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: February 2013
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Monday, February 11, 2013. How to win composing. One of the main reasons we all became composers is the thrill of competition. The hunt, the chase, the adrenaline rush, the sport of it all! The vibrant beauty of young lads, in the prime of youth, competing for the glory of being the best. We are lucky in that we have such a well formed and established competition circuit for the young composer to earn his chops on. Well being such an objective proce...
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: November 2010
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. The Young LA-based Freelance Musician. While out enjoying the insane. Math-bop stylings of Katisse. The guy who played the flute solos for Ron Burgandy in Anchorman. Me and my friend came up with the following metric to help understand the life of the young LA-based freelance musician:. You can choose two of the three. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Los Angeles, CA. View my complete profile. Find me on BandCamp.
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: May 2011
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Thursday, May 12, 2011. I've been exploring some new bad-ass composition career opportunities, and I had no idea the world was so freakin' awesome. Like seriously, the world ROCKS. One awesome INSTENSE job would be to compose music for the National Geographic Channel, or as they awesomely call themselves, "NatGeo.". Get the freak outta here! What do you know about long-shoring, you jerk, it's crazy INTENSE! A crane boom is down! A rogue sailor elude...
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: Golijov raises the level of people's ire
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Golijov raises the level of people's ire. There is currently a "big" (in new music terms) controversy over Golijov. S perhaps less than honest use of others' music in his own. Now, you may recall I did a big blog post expounding on the virtues of his cello concerto Azul. So I thought I'd once again provide the links so you can hear for yourself what everybody is complaining about. Isn't it still awesome? Los Angeles, CA.
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: October 2013
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Friday, October 4, 2013. It has come to my attention that classical music has recently died. City Opera is done. They have millions of dollars of debt. Operations ceased. Minnesota orchestra. Vänskä resigns. Aâròn Jåy Kérnïs resigns. Carnegie Hall stage hands went on strike. For a day. (There are 5 of them.). German orchestras also went on strike. Stay tuned for further updates (if necessary). Artist's realization of the end times. Los Angeles, CA.
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: On making a scene
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Thursday, June 28, 2012. On making a scene. Two anecdotes to set the stage:. The response: "we can't help you, you're our competition.". On the other hand, we the Los Angeles composer might stand back a second and ask if we deserve it. We might individually believe our music more than worthy to grace the baton of our boy wonder conductor, but who collectively do we hold up as the best we have to offer? So what do they got that we don't? Starting fro...
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: June 2011
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Saturday, June 11, 2011. If you're anything like me, first of all, good. But secondly, you've been waiting patiently for a chance to hear Osvaldo Golijov's. Again, ever since you first heard it at the Aspen Music Festival a couple years ago. Why would you want to hear this piece? Well I'm reporting, for those who may care, because you should, that you CAN hear it for yourself, right now, on something called the "internet." No, not thanks to some...
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Cereal Music - The music of Ben Phelps: June 2012
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Classical music for the post-hipster, in LA and beyond. Thursday, June 28, 2012. On making a scene. Two anecdotes to set the stage:. The response: "we can't help you, you're our competition.". On the other hand, we the Los Angeles composer might stand back a second and ask if we deserve it. We might individually believe our music more than worthy to grace the baton of our boy wonder conductor, but who collectively do we hold up as the best we have to offer? So what do they got that we don't? Starting fro...
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