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Transcript: Composer Finds Self in Music of Other Cultures
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- January 16, 1994
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PETER GARLAND, Composer: It's difficult to survive as a freelance
composer. I don't teach. I'm a little bit of a kind of the dropout
generation of the late 60s, early 70s. Kind of independent, and for
that reason I've been kind of outside of academia, which perhaps has
been good for my music but difficult for my economic status. And
so I just had a kind of crisis in '91 and decided to sort of travel.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: Peter Garland's story is not an unfamiliar one.
An American composer/musician strapped for cash and prospects goes
abroad to search for grants and fellowships. When the recession hit
two years ago, Garland was in New ...