Why You Are Afraid to Commission a Composer

You are a soloist, a music director of an ensemble, or an artist in another field looking for original music to complement your project but you are apprehensive because

• You haven’t commissioned a composer before and are not sure how to approach the conversation
  
  

• You have commissioned a composer before and ended up with a modernistic gibberish of a piece you don’t ever want to hear again
  
  

• You are burned out on the drama of collaborating with creative people because they have no business sense and do not deliver on agreed upon deadlines
  
  

• You think composers are ego-driven divas who will ignore your input and create something you will always regret having your name attached to

  Yet, deeply inside you know that

• You cannot stand listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and you long for something fresh and revolutionary
  
  

• You feel the need to create your own legacy and to make a meaningful splash in the world of the arts
  
  

• You are tired of traditional cliché approaches but you feel that the schizophrenic avant-garde culture alienates the audience and the performers
  
  

• You hope there is a way to create something rewarding, bypassing the risks of disappointment

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