Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (How I Compose)

Use this clip to enhance your introduction of music composed by Jennifer Higdon. Here are music recommendations from 7 Public Radio PD's and MD's. Blue Cathedral (Telarc 80596) Autumn Reflection (I Virtuosi IVR 501 and Avie AV0004) Autumn Music (Crystal Records - CD754) Dash (Crystal Records 946) Concerto for Orchestra (Telarc 80620) Concerto for Orchestra (2nd mvt) Peachtree Street, from City Scape (Telarc 80620) Song (Cantilena 66022) Additional Jennifer Higdon recording information is at www.jenniferhigdon.com/

SUGGESTED HOST INTRO
Composer Jennifer Higdon maintains a full schedule of commissions and enjoys more than 200 performances of her music a year. Her work Blue Cathedral is one of the most-performed orchestral compositions by a living composer. And yet, she says her days are still filled with questions.

CLIP TRANSCRIPT
"I figure I'm going to be for the rest of my life, trying to figure out how to compose. Every time I face that blank page, there's a real serious moment of panic. I think, 'I can't remember how to do this!' Even though I've probably written 120, 130 works, it still can be a very intimidating thing. So, I actually find it probably just as mysterious as other people do as well. Sometimes at the end of a day of composing, I look at it and I just cannot figure out, where did this music come from? It's kind of odd."

SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO
A day in the life of a composer - in this case, Jennifer Higdon. Here's one of those works that began with a blank page - and maybe a little panic. This is Higdon's (insert music title and performers).

Special thanks to John Clare of WITF for making this interview with Jennifer Higdon available to Virtuoso Voices. The interview was heard originally on his program, "Composing Thoughts."

(To download a .txt file of this suggested copy, look under the "Additional Files" for this piece.)


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