Everyone knows that Matthew has an amazing variety of percussion instruments that he plays on our concerts. Almglocken? Got it. Korean woodblocks? Check. 5 octave marimba? Please. And our fans can also recall fondly moments during performances in which members of our wind section deftly puts down one instrument to pick up another, nanoseconds before [...]
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Winding down
It’s December, which in the music world means it’s time for holiday concerts. Which, if you’re eighth blackbird, means a performance of Pierrot lunaire. A song cycle of 21 poems done in German dealing with topics as far ranging as the moon and a beheading is almost the same thing as a service of Lessons [...]
Really, it made sense at the time
I woke up this morning in Atlanta, having gone to visit a friend who plays in the Symphony. I’d spent the weekend in Spartanburg, SC, just a few hours away, with my grandfather and aunts, and it was time to start getting ready to go to Birmingham, where we have a concert tomorrow night. So, [...]
