![]() This composer is something of a throwback in terms of sheer entrepreneurial verve. The program is titled “A View of America.” The consort, which pairs experienced players and singers with younger, less experienced musicians, performs music by other composers, too, but its primary purpose is to get Tim Keyes’ music out there. in Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. ![]() Keyes - Small Town Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano and the violin concerto “Colorado” - on Sunday at 4 p.m. There’s an awful lot of spicy gossip, too.Īll this is by way of introduction to Tim Keyes, founder and director of the Tim Keyes Consort, which will be performing two new works by Mr. There’s much more discussion of the business of music than there is of the music itself. Reading Mozart’s letters is a real eye-opener. Before romantic conceptions of high art turned them into tortured geniuses, too tender to cope with the real world, composers were all-around practical professionals who could write, perform, rehearse, produce, present, solicit commissions, sell sheet music, act as agents for instrument manufacturers, etc. This scenario would seem very strange to the likes of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven if they happened to drop by. People imagine that composers are off somewhere in their ivory towers, thinking deep thoughts. ![]() Even when they aren’t well, decomposing, which happens to be true of almost all the really famous ones, composers are rarely seen in concert venues, other than to take a bow or two at the behest of limelight-loving performers. Except for some high- profile singer-songwriters and some jazz artists, composers are the invisible men - rather, the invisible people - of music. ![]()
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