Mary Jane Leach's Page

I’ve been teaching a theory/beginning composition course at RPI for the past two years. The students are primarily engineering students. About half of them play an instrument and play in a classical group. Another quarter play guitar or some other rock-oriented instrument. The rest don’t play anything at all, but “like music.” Their levels of music fundamentals run the gamut, from those who know it inside out, to others who don’t even know where to put the stems on notes. Most of them are pretty… Continue

I'm really sad to hear of Mauricio Kagel's death, a loss of one of the gentler composers of his generation. I knew of him before I lived in Köln, of course, but got to experience him and his influence while there. Almost every composer in Köln studied with him at the Hochschule at some time. Countless students of his have bandoneons. ;-) And he was so supportive of his students. I remember fondly a concert of his students I went to, and some of them tried to incorporate his type of humor, withou… Continue

I've recently updated my Julius Eastman pages.

For those of you who don't know about him, start here. JuliusEastmanProject

Otherwise here is the updated scores page, including a schematic by Julius of Crazy Nigger that I recently found. JuliusEastmanScores

Enjoy!