After each of our concerts at University of Richmond’s Modlin Center, we hold a 20-minute talkback session with the audience, which the Center later posts online as what they call a “Modcast”. These are casual chats: we are relaxed, the audience is usually responsive and asks interesting questions, there are inevitably lots of belly-laughs.
This Modcast was held after our Richmond concert on 28 February 2007. The wonderful soprano Lucy Shelton was our guest artist for the Foss and Sierra works. The program for this concert was:
Franco Donatoni Arpege
Lucas Foss Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Luciernagas
Roberto Sierra Cancionero Sefardi
David M. Gordon Friction Systems
The session touched on areas including extended techniques (non-traditional sounds), individual memorization procedures, the origin of specific works, how we find and commission new compositions.
Thanks to the Modlin Center at the University of Richmond for giving us permission to post this Modcast.
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Fascinating excerpt. I for one would be interested to know more about the group’s spiritual/poetic/other affinities with the work and poetic practice of the singular Wallace Stevens himself. The acclaimed Australian poet and novelist David Malouf - winner of the then richest literary prize in the world, the Dublin Impac Award - was influenced in his early poetry by the work of Stevens.
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