We are in beautiful Hanover, NH – home of famed Dartmouth College – for a three-day music department residency and a concert at “the Hop” (the Dartmouthians seem to enjoy abbreviations as much as Oberlin did: the Rat, the Sco, the Feve, the Con).
Yesterday the Kap and I appeared on Word of Mouth, an arts show from NHPR, New Hampshire’s public radio affiliate. The host, Virginia Prescott was incredibly well-versed in the life and times of 8bb, and surprised us with her knowledge of the ins and outs of the ensemble. (“How did she know that?” “Where did find that out?” “I feel like she must have been tapping our phones…”) It’s a nice little interview, and you can listen to it online here.
One other quick note: In addition to the usual round of masterclasses and class visits, the college scheduled a more unique residency activity for us: trips to on-campus residence houses to chat about the life of 8bb with students, during which we eat a meal cooked by one of the students. (My favorite residence house feature? A bathroom chock-a-block full of traffic signs, including, above the toilet, “NO DUMPING”. Wishful thinking…) Although none of the students were music majors (except a music/math major – “It’s a fun course – I get to experiment…a lot”) they were all very engaged, and seemed very interested in our, well, frankly bizarre lifestyle.
And, at one of the houses, they even specially designed the dessert to suit our name. Chocolate pudding with broken-up Oreos and candy worms. Get it? Imagine the candy worms sticking up out of the “ground”, waiting to be eaten up by a blackbird…bloody adorable!
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