Dr. Johnson and I worked on our doctorates together at Louisiana State University. He is a modern composer and a professor of music at St. Louis University. This conversation tries to shed some light on what it is like to be a modern composer and addresses some of the philosophical questions that they must face.
This conversation took place on stage at St. Louis Community College/Forest Park on November 20th, 2017. It is about 50 minutes long.
Here is the .mp3 file. (I'll try to get set up with iTunes, etc. soon...)
Musicians are just like teachers in a sense because they want to be able to know that they are understandable. They seek to write something that pleases at least one person who can say that they "get it", this will give every musician some form of successfulness and help them know that they are communicating something worthwhile. They are being heard and recognized as normal at least to someone.
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