James B. Maxwell

Five things that shaped James B. Maxwell
Song: Rite of Spring, Stravinsky
Book: The Dyer’s Hand, W.H. Auden
Film: Amadeus, Miloš Forman (strange, but not being from a conservatory background, it made me realize composition could be a “thing”)
Trip: Probably the first time I went to Europe. I was doing a composition Master Class with Ladislav Kubik, of Charles University in Prague.
Advice: DD Kugler (dramaturg) pointing out that the opening night of a premiere isn’t the end of the process, it’s the beginning of a new process