Jack Van Zandt
Composer
Writings, Publications and Lectures
Books
Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors and Models
by Alexander Goehr and Jack Van Zandt
Carcanet Press, 26 October, 2023
Interviews
Using High Art as an Enrichment, Not an Escape (2024)
Van Zandt's interview with UK composer and political activist Ben Lunn about the book with Alexander Goehr, "Composing a Life: Teachers Mentors and Models," published in Culture Matters (UK).
Dress Rehearsal Podcast (2022)
Interviewed by pianist Lorenzo Marasso.
The 45th episode of Dress Rehearsal, on 107.3 KBFG Seattle, welcomes Composer Jack Van Zandt who is a Los Angeles and Ireland-based composer of music for concerts, public spaces, gallery installations, television, film, and advertising. He has composed more than 300 works and his concert music has been performed in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe. He is a co-Grammy winner in the Best Classical Compendium category. During the hour we will chat with Jack about his life as a composer and listen to some of his earlier and more recent works.
A Conversation with Alexander Goehr (2017)
Jack Van Zandt talked to his teacher and friend, British composer and Cambridge University
Emeritus Professor of Music Alexander Goehr, about his experiences and friendships in the USA.
Podcast with musical examples.
Selected Published Writings
A Personal Tribute
British Music Society newsletter, October 2023
For Thea Musgrave On Her 95th Birthday
British Music Society newsletter, May 2023
A personal appreciation of Alexander Goehr on his 90th Birthday
British Music Society newsletter, August 2022
The Language of Music: Notation and Basic Theory
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2003
The Language of Music: Classical Music Terms
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2003
Zen in the Art of Composing: Goehr the Sensei (2011)
Essay for publication by the Goehr Archives in Berlin
Mariachi Music and Politics: A Conversation with Linda Ronstadt
Published by Metro Newspapers, San Jose, CA, in Metro Silicon Valley, Metroactive.com and San Jose Inside.com, August 28, 2008
Opinion: Civic Needs New Management
Published by Metro Newspapers, San Jose, CA, in Metro Silicon Valley, Metroactive.com and San Jose Inside.com, March 12, 2008
Arts Review Lead
Published by Metro Newspapers, San Jose, CA, in Metro Silicon Valley, Metroactive.com and San Jose Inside.com, October 22, 2008
Arts Review Lead
Published by Metro Newspapers, San Jose, CA, in Metro Silicon Valley, Metroactive.com and San Jose Inside.com, December 10, 2008
Other Selected Publications
What Happened Here: Ireland?
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2005
Who Discovered Ganymede? A Quiz Deck on the History of Science
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2007
Mona Lisa, the Kiss and the Thinker: What Do You Know About the History of Art?
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2007
What Do You Know About Abraham Lincoln?
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2008
What Do You Know About John F. Kennedy?
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2008
What Do You Know About Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Knowledge Cards, Pomegranate Communications, Portland, OR, 2009
More than 200 opinion and arts review columns may be seen at:
www.sanjoseinside.com/author/jack-van-zandt/
Lectures and Workshops
I am available to deliver these lectures and workshops by request.
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Music
A two or three-hour university lecture with recorded musical examples. Good for ethnomusicology, music history, musicology, composition and anthropology classes.
Copyright 2011
The Central Role of Music in Evolution, Revolution and Education
A one-hour university lecture.
Copyright 2010
Telling a Story with Music
A one-hour university lecture/demo, with performance by pianist Nadia Shpachenko.
Copyright 2016
The Composer's Tool Box
A two-hour university workshop for undergraduate and graduate composers.
Copyright 2017
British Music Theater and Chamber Opera of the 1960s and 1970s
A one or two-hour university lecture/demo on the pioneering works of Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle.
Copyright 2017