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| Alex Shapiro openly discusses a broad range of topics in her ten-page autobiographical lead article, Compose, Communicate and Connect for the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music, Spring 2005 issue. The article was so warmly received that it was reprinted with permission in two parts for the Autumn 2005 and Winter 2006 issues of the American Composers Forum magazine, Sounding Board. |
Alex shares her ideas about... • numerous ways to conquer writer's block ...with score examples, pith and humor.
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Alex is the featured artist in Kyle Gann's wonderful American Composer series that appears in the May/June 2008 issue of Chamber Music magazine. Read what he has to say about Alex's unusual background and appoach to her work.
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On Molly Sheridan's popular blog Mind the Gap, Alex Shapiro was one a few invited new music web denizen to weigh in on the premises in the book The Whuffie Factor, by Tara Hunt. Alex opened the conversation with a post that codifies her thoughts on artists and the professional relationships they create with new social network technology: Selling Everything, 2.0--The Jig Goes Public, published July 2009. |
Alex has a lot to say about the connection between living an emotional life and composing emotional music in her March 2008 interview for the online magazine Tokafi
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Alex's typically direct opinions on life and music can be enjoyed in an August 2006 interview for Tokafi |
When NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri asked Alex to write an article about artists and website promotion techniques, Alex was happy to do so. But beginning work on the essay, she realized that there are three distinctly nonmusical concepts behind anyone's ability to promote their work: a sense of self worth, an abundant attitude, and a connection to the joy of what they do. Thus, a larger article was borne. Here is the first part, All the Things You Are: Five Suggestions for Composing Your Happiness, published November 2007. |
Here is the second part of Alex's writing about the significance of the internet for composers, and how they can use their web presence to create income. Her article, Making an Asset Out of Your eSelf, appears in the April 2008 issue of NewMusicBox. |
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Alex was asked to contribute her thoughts to the September 2003 issue of NewMusicBox, addressing the topic of musical monikers such as neo-romanticism. Read what she had to say about today's concert music, the meaningless terms that attempt to categorize it, and why there's never been a better time to be a composer. |
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Blogging: How to Build and Audience Without Leaving Home Alex Shapiro, Jerry Bowles, editor of the new music blog Sequenza 21, and Drew McManus, author of Adaptistration.com, gave a panel presentation about blogging at the 2006 National Chamber Music America Conference in New York City. Here's the handout guide they created, to assist anyone launching a blog. |
Orchestra consultant Drew McManus invited several colleagues to share their ideas about bringing pals to the symphony for Take A Friend To Orchestra month. In Alex's April 2006 essay for McManus' well trodden blog, Adaptistration, absolutely nothing is sacred! Enjoy her unorthodox take on the subject, along with the subsequent comments and return volley she offered... fasten your seat belt. Alex's and many other TAFTO essays are available in physical, bound form in the 2006 book, Take a Friend to the Orchestra. |
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Alex's feature article about composing a wind band piece for the U.S. Army is the cover of the July 2008 issue of Sounding Board, the magazine of the American Composers Forum. The twist to the story: the Commander found Alex on... MySpace!
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Here's a short Q & A that The Vegetarian Times did with Alex for their July 2008 magazine. No animals were harmed in the making of this interview. |
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See what Alex divulges in her biographical interview |
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Read what Alex had to say about attracting audiences to new music, in her 2008 essay for the Orcas Island newspaper Islands Sounder. |
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January 2008 On January 3rd, Alex taped an animated interview in New York City with violinist and host John Clare, for his WITF-FM radio show Composing Thoughts which aired April 27, 2008. Enjoy the results from the combination of great questions, laughter and single malt scotch. |
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August 2006 Hear Alex Shapiro's recent live interview about composers and modern society, in Philip Blackburn's new podcast series for the American Composers Forum, Measure for Measure. |
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December 2007 Hear Alex Shapiro's comments on several tracks from Notes from the Kelp, in response to questions from the producer of Behind the Beat, Steven Rosenfeld. The interview is featured on the ASCAP Audio Portraits series. |
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February 2008 Tired of your first life? Well, the virtual world is a reality for musicians, and Music Academy Online is a big part of the growing trend. Alex discussed her musical life on the Second Life Cable Network television show, which you can watch here. It's worth having a look, just to see the dress Alex's avatar, Asha, is wearing! |
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October 2007 On Martin Perlich's radio show The Audition Booth, Alex talks about the making of her CD, Notes from the Kelp. The live in-studio interview offers insights on many issues, including what's involved with producing an album this diverse in today's market. |
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February 2006 Alex's life and music were the subject of a one-hour radio show for a new series called American MusicMakers with Theme and Variations host Will Everett. Airing on public radio stations all across the U.S., Alex's show kicked off the monthly series and featured excerpts of five of her recent chamber works and one in its entirety, along with a lengthy interview Will recorded during his walk with her on the beach at her Malibu home. The conversation covers a wide range of topics from the personal to the global, and wraps up in Alex's project studio with a spontaneous guitar performance, and one of her cats improvising on vocals at the end. |
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July 2004 Alex had a great time as the guest composer on Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar radio show, broadcast live from beautiful Vermont. The two-hour show featured complete recordings of five of Alex's works, along with a lot of laughter and conversation covering everything from suggested composer hygiene to chocolate covered cricket clusters. Oh, and they talked about music, too! The hosts call it one of their funniest shows ever, and you can either stream the whole thing, or enjoy it in a condensed form (the five music selections are truncated here, thus shamelessly encouraging CD sales). |
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| Part 1: Thelma and Louise do Vermont, jingles, biology and music | |
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| Part 3: Self-publishing and the battle of the brain hemispheres | |
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To hear the entire, fun-filled Kalvos & Damian show, click here!
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