A Letter to a Student
A young composer once asked me why so much new music seems to have so little to say. Here is my reply, on the difference between writing music and composing art, and why the eraser is a composer’s greatest friend.
Joshua Nichols
Why Do English Departments Hate Literature?
Liza Libes argues that Columbia’s English department has replaced literature with ideology, turning great books into tools for political critique. From Orientation Week onward, she found theory and identity politics overshadowing beauty, humanism, and the transformative power of literature.
The Omni-American Review
At a moment when American public life often oscillates between exhaustion and abstraction, serious cultural reflection has become increasingly rare. It is therefore worth drawing attention to the work being undertaken through the Omni-American Review by our senior fellow Aryeh Tepper, who serves as the journal’s editor-in-chief.
DEI Ruins Excellence in Orchestral Programming
The problem with the LAO guide is that it destroys meritocracy in the orchestral repertoire, and places a heavy burden on artistic organizations to choose diversity over compositional merit.
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