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Administrative Director for eighth blackbird

Intimacy and Performance

I’m always thrilled when a new experience foregrounds an otherwise unnoticed phenomena. Last night I had just such an experience while watching Kerry Frumkin host eighth blackbird’s appearance on ‘Live from WFMT’, while others had the same experience while watching eighth blackbird itself. The phenomena is that of the distance between artist and audience shattered [...]

Herewith, we resolve to:

John von Rhein of Chicago Tribune suggests that in 2009 you resolve to: “Make listening to contemporary music an essential part of your life: You don’t have to like every new score you hear, of course. But you shouldn’t shun music just because it’s unfamiliar—you might even find yourself turned on by sounds fresh and [...]