MPP #2: Jennifer Jolley on Rejection and Collaboration

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Third time’s a charm! After a sudden scheduling conflict and a Google Hangouts technological nightmare, Jenn Jolley and I finally sat down to talk about her music, her blog, and the opera company that she helped to found.

In this episode, we touched on:

• Rejection
• How processing our emotions is time invested in our art
• Using rejection to springboard into new projects
• Competitions and how they’re run
• NANOWorks
• Building an organization that serves the wider community
• The difficulty of securing second and third performances
• The realities of running an ensemble or arts organization
• Taking stock of your situation and re-evaluating your goals
• When practical considerations inform your writing
• The need for more operatic roles for women
• Composer collectives
• Resource sharing

Links:
JenniferJolley.com
WhyCompose.com
NANOWorks Opera
AJD•ective New Music

[Techinical Difficulties music by Darien Shulman]