NEOROMANTICISM

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As a composer, I call myself a neoromantic.  For me, music is always about expressing powerful, deeply felt emotion.  I believe in melody and harmony and rhythm and counterpoint.  I believe in easily recognizable themes, used to build larger structures.  To be sure, these nineteenth century values were largely repudiated in the twentieth century, whose music often expresses alienation, confusion, and disorientation.  But this music never did catch on with the public, and in the twenty-first century, some composers are returning to the values of the past. In my own music, I strive to communicate directly with the hearts of the listeners.  I strive to write music so moving that even a young child can enjoy it, yet so carefully crafted that a sophisticated listener can hear the piece again and again, hearing more and more each time.