When concerts, performances, shows and events ground to a halt this spring, the dust that arose enveloped the art world in uncertainty.
“In general, as composers, we create from the ether; music extrapolated from thoughts, fragments, and eventually the abstract becomes composing,” Paola Prestini, composer, co-founder and artistic director of National Sawdust, told ALL ARTS recently. “I’ve always believed ‘we must build as if the sand were stone’ (Borges) but this is another level of instability.”
When concerts, performances, shows and events ground to a halt this spring, the dust that arose enveloped the art world in uncertainty.
“In general, as composers, we create from the ether; music extrapolated from thoughts, fragments, and eventually the abstract becomes composing,” Paola Prestini, composer, co-founder and artistic director of National Sawdust, told ALL ARTS recently. “I’ve always believed ‘we must build as if the sand were stone’ (Borges) but this is another level of instability.”
When concerts, performances, shows and events ground to a halt this spring, the dust that arose enveloped the art world in uncertainty.
“In general, as composers, we create from the ether; music extrapolated from thoughts, fragments, and eventually the abstract becomes composing,” Paola Prestini, composer, co-founder and artistic director of National Sawdust, told ALL ARTS recently. “I’ve always believed ‘we must build as if the sand were stone’ (Borges) but this is another level of instability.”
