Errollyn Wallen: new Master of the King's Music

[Serial_Apologist]

She doesn't like to be pigeon-holed, and she is or has been "seriously" into contemporary classical music ::

Music has remained ‘the thing’ and across her glittering career, Wallen has carved out a powerful and original musical voice that draws variously on serialism, the avant-garde, blues, gospel, jazz, minimalism and much more besides. In Becoming a Composer, she describes her music as resisting ‘being part of any sort of -ism (or indeed -wasm)’.
BBC Music

https://www.classical-music.com/features/composers/errollyn-wallen

There is a podcast available from the COTW episodes, but that is short on music, and long on chit-chat.

She may well be right. The point, as John McLaughlin said somewhere, is that to be successful (ie consequent) the fusion has to take place inside the artist, the way Miles Davis adapted to Rock and Funk, and not be imposed or superimposed, as too often happened in the 1990s post-House and Hip-Hop generic grafts, which quickly ran out of options and names to tag them.

[Pulcinella]

More from the new Master:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/25/widen-access-to-classical-music-with-free-lessons-says-errollyn-wallen

[Serial_Apologist]

More from the new Master:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/ar...rrollyn-wallen