Tips for composers

Rob Deemer highlights several aspects needed for a composer to survive in the artistic community:
– ability to accept “failure” (entering competitions, etc.)
– maintaining a “stubbornness” to achieve recognition
– promoting not only your best works, but also occasionally enjoying the success of your “foibles”
– having a sense of “who you are” as a composer and person.

Rob Deemer, “…When you can blog”, New Music Box, 19 October 2012. http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/when-you-can-blog/ Accessed 30 March 2013.

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