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	<title>R.A. Moulds</title>
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	<description>A sometime writer, poet, and composer.</description>
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		<title>To Note or Not to Note</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2012/04/to-note-or-not-to-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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In preparation for the upcoming Binghamton Community Orchestra performance, I sent forward these notes. Of course, my dislike of writing program notes on my pieces is well-documented, but like them or not, I see their usefulness in a situation where the audience knows nothing about the piece. So here we are. Attached also are Rob Haskins&#8217; wonderful notes that give a little bit more information on both me and the piece itself.
Leyenda Mística I
(Mystic Legend I)
Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento, Op. 78, 2002
(Eclogue: the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Willow and the Wind</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2012/03/the-willow-and-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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On Saturday, May 5, at 7 pm, the Binghamton Community Orchestra will be performing the very first of my Leyendas Místicas, Égloga: el Sauce que se enamoró de la Caricia del Viento (Eclogue: the Willow that fell in love with the Wind&#8217;s Caress). I am sure I need not say how excited I am. In all truth, the composition was actually performed years ago, but in another form, namely an arrangement for saxophone choir by the talented and generous Nigel Wood. But the version for orchestra was the original, premiered, ...]]></description>
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		<title>That I May Forget That I Am</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/12/that-i-may-forget-that-i-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked with me on performances or recordings should be able to tell you how very uncomfortable I am with addressing groups—either audiences or performers—with regard to my compositions. This reluctance is connected, no doubt, to my discomfort with detailed program notes, but it also has to do with a general shyness about public speaking, and I am certainly not a very good extemporizer on the subject of compositional background or inspiration. I have more than once demurred when given the opportunity to talk to performers who were ...]]></description>
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		<title>Poison In Opinions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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Not long ago I read several informal opinions on the presentation of Philip Glass&#8216; opera, Satyagraha, by the Metropolitan Opera. I say informal opinions because these were short comments on a handful of social media sites rather than actual critical reviews or articles. I mention this because I was struck by the somewhat intemperate tone taken by the writers of these messages; it is clear that the writers were not best pleased with either the production or the work itself, and  in one case the writer was distressed by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Resonance and Residence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.” — Anish Kapoor
I am feeling a bit dreamy this evening. It is a strange feeling in this day and time, particularly when faced with the stubbornly unsubtle pace of life in a city pushed to the limit of enforced gaiety by the current bread-and-circuses offering of our thoughtless public servants, but there is an explanation for it, and a reason for my treasuring of this state in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Dick&#8217;s Affliction</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/06/mr-dicks-affliction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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I recently saw an interview with the late film director Sidney Lumet, in which he made the following statement—&#8221;All good work is self-revelation.&#8221; He was speaking in the context of discussing how he grew from being an actor himself to a notable director of such films as Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and 12 Angry Men. For my part, I see his point in the number of films he made that almost use his beloved New York City as a character itself, but I am less sure about the connection he ...]]></description>
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		<title>All of the People, All of the Time</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/05/all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 19:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems my secret is out at last. Having worked on Los Fantasmas de la Plaza Mayor for more years than I care to admit, I finally wrestled it into discernible shape. Now, &#8217;tis true that that shape is twenty-four minutes long and comprises four sections without discernible breaks, but I have to confess that I have been somewhat surprised at its reception in some quarters. I will confess in advance that some friends and acquaintances have mentioned its &#8220;powerful architecture,&#8221; &#8220;masterly orchestration&#8221;, and fine handling of thematic material, but it is ...]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Music History, Part 2, or &#8220;Positive Peregrinations in the 21st Century&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/04/the-end-of-music-history-part-2-or-positive-peregrinations-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I must apologize for taking such a long break; life often has a way of catching up with us at inopportune times, and the past month or so has been fraught, so to speak, with more than its share of drama and unexpected responsibilities. Having said that, however, let&#8217;s attend to the matter at hand.
First, let&#8217;s return for a moment to Tom Service&#8217;s admirable lecture, “So long and thanks for all the noise: 2010 and the end of musical history.”  Part of the reason that this title so caught my attention was that ...]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Music History (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/02/the-end-of-music-history-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has become something of a commonplace to say that, in the 21st century, “serious music” (a term that I use reluctantly) has entered a definite period of decline, if not its death throes. In truth, it has even become something of a commonplace to say that such a statement has, indeed, become a commonplace. Thus, when I read the title of a lecture by Tom Service, who writes on music for The Guardian and presents BBC Radio 3’s “Music Matters,” I thought that it surely must be more of ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Burning Party</title>
		<link>http://ramoulds.com/2011/01/a-burning-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
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Considering that my last meditation, so to speak, was all about looking forward and not backward, it is a bit awkward to observe that I’ve spent a great part of the last few weeks digging through old files and papers in the vain hope of bringing some order to the flotsam that has accumulated during the past forty years. I am happy to say that I have so far managed to stave off the inclination toward hoarding that was once my mother’s secret indulgence, but there are still a few ...]]></description>
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