Article: Gaburo - notes on .... (musician, composer and composition teacher Kenneth Gaburo)

WHY DO YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH ME?

One did not study with Gaburo: (a) in order to make "connections," (b) to meet curriculum requirements, (c) because there was no room in another teacher's load, (d) to "sample" a different approach to composing, (e) to write award-winning works, (f) because it was fashionable, (g) because he won the Pulitzer, (h) because he just happened to be around....

One did study with Gaburo: (a) in order to be free from all of the above....

The subject was composition: its processes, meanings, histories, possibilities, failings, but never its limits. Composition was both self-expression and critique: the exploration of the self ...

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