Our recent composers competition required us to quickly become familiar with the works of three composers we had never played. We spent hours rehearsing and putting together their pieces, and while we did have some correspondence via email with them, we didn’t really know what they would be like in person. My curiosity got the better [...]
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Composer chit-chat 3 – Frances White
Several weeks ago we gave the world premiere of a new piece for sextet and electronics by Frances White at University of Richmond’s 3P Festival of Electroacoustic Music. This is what I wrote at the time: Each year the festival commissions one or two new works for 8bb to premiere. Last year it was pieces [...]
Composer chit-chat 2 – Stephen Hartke
“We have some music of this type, then, meanwhile, there is something else going on here. Meanwhile, over there there is something else entirely.” This is how Stephen Hartke describes the origin of his new piece Meanwhile, a set of six character-pieces that 8bb premiered several weeks ago at University of Richmond, as part of [...]
