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Jennifer Higdon

(1962) Composer

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Jennifer Higdon is a composer.

Quick Facts About Jennifer Higdon

Born: December 31, 1962
Profession: Composer

About Jennifer Higdon

[Wikidata] American composer... | [Wikipedia] Jennifer Elaine Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in

Quotes by Jennifer Higdon

We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages…

Jennifer Higdon

Anything can happen

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I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently…

Jennifer Higdon

Academic

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You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think…

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Classical music

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I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how.…

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Important

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My pieces usually are programmed on concerts in which the other works are standard repertoire. My music always sounds very different when…

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Composer

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As a consequence, I think of the idea of 'common practice' at any time as something that can only be seen by…

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20th century

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In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much…

Jennifer Higdon

Art

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When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds…

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Art

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When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art…

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Art

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