About 10 days ago, while the group was in Melbourne for the 2012 Metropolis Festival in Melbourne, Australia, I had the chance to experience John Luther Adams’ monumental Inuksuit, a 80-90 minute work for 9-99 percussionists (in this performance, I believe, 33), performed outdoors on the campus of Melbourne University. eighth blackbird was first involved [...]
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Should hard music sound hard?
The group is in Australia right now, having an fantastic time with students in Melbourne and Brisbane and enjoying concerts in same, with Sydney thrown into the mix, as well as lots of good coffee, wine, beer and food, all at exorbitant prices (holy crap the US dollar sucks). We sometimes have some free nights [...]
US Standardized testing for music: I failed 4/4
I was checking out the NY Times and they had an article on sluggish math results and more indicators of the abysmal failure that is “No Child Left Behind.” I was curious to see what kind of questions the kids were being asked, and the article had a link to the National Assessment of Educational [...]
