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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At the bottom of the world
It’s 6:30pm in Hobart, Tasmania, but it still feels like pre-dawn to my jet-lag-addled body. We perform the Higdon tomorrow night, and my main concern is that I won’t be awake. The orchestra sounds great and we’ve had such a generous amount of rehearsal that I feel positively spoiled. So all I have to do [...]
reading rainbow
Reading Rainbow Ever since I could read, books have been my constant friend. You know, the kind of friend who makes a great travel partner and who’s good company both at a dinner party and a sob party. While I do love my TV shows, I think of TV more as my drinking buddy – [...]
