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March 14, 2026
About my Opera "A Character..."
Why this? Why now?
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December 22, 2025
Something more - La Paiva
What I'm thinking
November 13, 2025
Symphony 8 Movement 1 Complete
I have completed the first movement of Symphony No. 8
September 10, 2025
Mistakes were made
May 5, 2024
Symphony No. 7 in Progress
August 10, 2020
12 Problems of American Opera Composition
August 31, 2019
On Ignorance
March 10, 2019
"Marnie" - I made 20 minutes
February 8, 2019
Fictional Non Fiction and Cultural Appropriation
December 10, 2018
I Failed You Nico
September 1, 2017
Stuff in The Time of Fluff
November 7, 2015
Random Thoughts
August 14, 2015
Of Populism; Musical and Political
June 16, 2015
Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation
August 3, 2014
The Triumph of The Editorial
July 22, 2014
Random Thoughts About Music on The Net
July 16, 2014
What Happened to Progressive American Music?
July 12, 2014
Response to "Who is Creative Placemaking? New Music, Integrity, and Community"
NMB round ups
July 9, 2014
Response to "Mary Rodgers (1931-2014): A Woman of Many Talents"
NMB round ups
July 7, 2014
Response to "Of New Music and The 99%"
NMB round ups
July 3, 2014
Response to: "Music Criticism is Broken and It’s All Your Fault"
NMB round ups
June 26, 2014
About Klinghoffer
May 18, 2014
Response to "Defining Musical Quality"
NMB round ups
April 22, 2014
Response to "Performing Quality"
NMB round ups
April 14, 2014
Response to "New Music is Academic Music"
NMB round ups
April 8, 2014
Response to "New Music’s Quality Problem"
NMB round ups
March 20, 2014
Exclusivity and Community
February 15, 2014
Big Change in The New Music World
February 2, 2014
Same Old Song
January 26, 2014
On the Money
September 21, 2013
From The Sidelines
September 12, 2013
Lets Hate The Arts
June 24, 2013
11 Ideas That Everyone Accepts That Are Wrong
December 31, 2012
Last Posts for The New Year
October 21, 2012
100 Men and A Girl Revisited
September 22, 2012
Classical Music and Its Parts
August 19, 2012
Film Destroys Opera?
July 8, 2012
Serial Composition Reginal Smith Brindle
May 26, 2012
Blog a Lot
May 12, 2012
Somethings Missing
April 26, 2012
A Short Moment
April 20, 2012
More More More
March 24, 2012
The Subject was...
March 16, 2012
This Weeks--NMB
March 3, 2012
Response to "Ring of Fire"
At it again --I mean I'm blogging again
February 16, 2012
Response to "New York Times (About Musicology)"
February 11, 2012
Thwarted -The Essence of The Ring
January 10, 2012
Thoughts on Blogging for FJO
December 30, 2011
A Troll is a Troll -- I mean really?
December 3, 2011
2 Things - Spoils for The Rich
November 19, 2011
Coming to the End of this I Think
November 12, 2011
A Little Late....
November 9, 2011
Cassandra Calling... Again
November 5, 2011
This Week Even More Censorship
October 14, 2011
Slow Week and No One Bit!!!
October 8, 2011
This Weeks and a Retred! Not to Mention Censorship
September 24, 2011
A Little Late but ...
September 13, 2011
On the Other Hand
September 13, 2011
Hard week?
September 5, 2011
Ah Success! Since I have Made it a Point not to Read The NMB Post I will Work Independently
August 22, 2011
BUDDY STUDIES THE SCORE and Some Notes
August 20, 2011
Dull Week -- Maybe not with Some Additions
August 13, 2011
Things Heat up About Artists Getting Paid and I Confuse MPR with TPT a Small Update
August 5, 2011
This Weeks NMB Phil Joins the Party!
August 4, 2011
This weeks NMB -- noth'in special again except... July 29 -- switched again
July 29, 2011
What We Have Left
July 26, 2011
Phil Sells Out!
July 22, 2011
NMB and SQ21
July 22, 2011
A Little More on this Subject
July 16, 2011
Well, An Explantion of the "Artist of the Moment" - by Dwight Macdonald
July 12, 2011
This Weeks
July 8, 2011
Slow Week --- I was out of Town
July 7, 2011
Staying Positive
June 24, 2011
Phil Gets Serious Again!
June 24, 2011
The Frame and the Window.
June 18, 2011
Well its Blog Time again
June 17, 2011
Well this Needs a Short Update "The New Rococo"
June 15, 2011
Erased again!!! The nu New Musicbox
June 5, 2011
"The Heart of Post Modern" Creating New Instruments and Music to Support them
June 3, 2011
I Lose My Cool
May 27, 2011
More o' the Same
May 20, 2011
There He Goes Again...
May 13, 2011
This Weeks Stuff I try to Restain Myself and Fail
May 9, 2011
Forgoing the Inside
May 6, 2011
More NMB No One Comments About What One Would Think They Would
May 5, 2011
Flying Blind 2
May 4, 2011
The More Things Change -- NMB does new opera -- again!
April 29, 2011
NMB Things Heat Up
April 23, 2011
NMB conversation? -- hardly
April 15, 2011
This Weeks NMB -- noth'in special
April 13, 2011
The More Things Change --NMB does new opera
April 9, 2011
NMB Phil Talks Tough
April 2, 2011
This Weeks NMB
March 25, 2011
Flying Blind
March 18, 2011
This Weeks NMB
March 10, 2011
Ok Its Thursday
March 4, 2011
Something to say--NMB
February 25, 2011
This Weeks NMB and Squenza 21 posts
February 21, 2011
Questions for Temp'6ra
February 19, 2011
This Week NMB
February 19, 2011
Well There They Go Again....
Phil Fried
