Collective Arrangements: The Story of the Libera Composers Association
Putting together a consortium with alumni band directors was a smart idea, but putting together a consortium collective with alumni band directors AND alumni composers was a great idea.
Mar 06, 2017
Banding Together
While we wanted to provide a wide variety of music for the band directors, we knew that we still needed to pay the composers for their time and thus keep the number realistic. In the end, we settled on five total composers—myself, Max, Scott Senko, Neil Quillen, and Dylan Carlson.
Mar 13, 2017
One Size Doesn’t Fit All, but Can You Hand Tailor a Consortium?
Even with our modest instrumentation guidelines for the composers to work with as a core ensemble, there were plenty of schools that simply didn’t have the instruments or resources to participate.
Mar 20, 2017
Up Next
What started as a short-term venture among friends is quickly expanding to a nationally-reaching collaboration between composers and school music programs.
