I SPECIALIZE IN DEAD, WHITE MEN

and their music... I bet you do, too.

I said it yesterday when I was talking about the Ralph Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto. But a lot of people look to me as a “new music” specialist, or a “women composer” specialist, or a “marginalized composer” specialist. They do that for a simple reason: I do some of this stuff now, and a lot of other people simply don’t touch it.

When I had my first pu…