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Benjamin Park is an active composer and native of Boston, Massachusetts. He began formally studying music composition at MIT and is now completing his master's degree at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Ben has studied composition with Peter Child, Keeril Makan, and Larry Alan Smith, and he is currently working with Robert Carl.
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Park Your Ears - Most Recent Post
Surprise -- It's March!
Back in 2009, when I was leading and participating in MIT's premier improv comedy troupe, Roadkill Buffet, we put on a show called "The 'Surprise, It's March!' Show." (The show was actually on February 28, a minor technicality...) In any case, while to the best of my knowledge that show title was nothing more than a goofy idea (though not nearly as goofy as the image we used for the show poster), I have always been reminded of the "Surprise It's March!" idea in subsequent years.
Sure enough, even with the extra day in February this year, March has arrived unexpectedly quickly. Midterms and spring break are fast approaching, to say nothing about the end of the school year and my master's program. As time goes by quickly, a few weeks have elapsed since I last wrote about the symphony I am working on, and having suggested in more recent posts that updates would be coming, now seems like an opportune time to share where I am at.